₦airaland Forum

Hundreds of students on the Presidential Amnesty Programme want the head of the Programme, Charles Dokubo out over his inability to implement the programme as laid out in the schedule. They said this in a protest at the Port Harcourt Liaison Office yesterday when many under various training programmes took to the streets to express their anger.

A statement released by them said ‘we are at a crossroad as we have not been equipped with skills that can empower us contribute meaningfully to the development of our nation. Having gone through two stages of the Amnesty programme, it is shocking that we are unable to go through the final phase for no fault of ours. Is it that the Federal Government has abandoned us or the Amnesty Office has forgotten that there are scholars under the Electric Power Transformer repair& maintenance of the Amnesty programme? Or has the programmes and activities of the scheme been badly prioritized? If #4.5billion could be expended on procurement items which were later looted, why can't the Amnesty office make milestone payment for a training contract such as this one covering Transformer repair & maintenance? Why is it that government and its agencies prefer the language of violence than meaningful engagement?

Our demands:
(1) Our cry today is to the father of the nation, President Buhari to urgently intervene;
(2)We call on the office of the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta who serves as Coordinator of the Amnesty office to within the next 7 working days commence payment to the contractor/consultant in order for training classes to resume and enable us reintegrate fully into the society and take care of ourselves and families;
(3) Failure to heed our peaceful advice to release funds to enable us resume classes, we shall take this agitation to another level.

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