When the North in the 1st republic instituted an indigenisation policy it was condemned as tribalism. If LASG decides to reserve new markets for indigenous 'area boys' post rehabilitation it will be be seen by all as tribalism but when the FGN reserves jobs and skills in the oil sector for indigenous ex militants we see it as solution to an otherwise intractable problem. When will Nigeria be run on consistent principles? Even in the Niger Delta we are getting reports that a certain anointed tribe has edged all other ND tribes out of these 'juicy' slots.

Samsung to Boost FG’s Amnesty Programme

24 Aug 2013
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An inspection team from the Samsung Heavy Industries in Asia visited Nigeria Thursday, to tour Bradama Skill Works Limited, a professional welding and metal fabrication plant, Ondo State.


SHI through its Nigerian subsidiary recently secured a $3bn order from a Nigerian firm to build a floating production, storage and offloading facility (FPSO) in the country. SHI was awarded the Igini Gas plant project and it will need to train and employ over 1000 technical staff members. Bradama Skill Works center currently has over three hundred trainees (ex-militants) and had graduated several hundreds. SHI said its principal objective was to support the federal government with the amnesty program designed to empower and re-integrate the ex-militants into the public by engaging both current trainees and graduated ones when the construction works commence.


The team will observe another round of inspection next month before the construction kicks off and an estimated 1000 ex-militants would be recruited as part of the workforce to deliver the contract.


In a chat with Chief Bibopere Ajube, the MD, C.E.O, Bradama Skill Works Limited, he noted that; " I realised these brothers of mine need to have livelihoods. So, I built this hostel and the acquisition center to make them have what to do with the rest of their lives. You can't take a man to the sea and leave him to drown there, if he makes it out alive, trouble looms. We must engage our people after training them, that is the way they can fend for themselves and become patriotic".

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