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By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa
Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Maj Gen. Barry Tariye Ndiomu (retd), Friday paid a visit to the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as a follow-up on the “pending 2017 Presidential Directive to employ 350 exceptional graduates” of the programme into the Federal Civil Service.
The visit comes following efforts by the PAP to facilitate the employment of 350 graduates from the Niger Delta area.
The interim administrator, Maj Gen. Ndiomu (retd), had at a press conference in early January noted that on assumption of office, he observed that of the number of ex-agitators and impacted communities that had benefitted from either the scholarship scheme or the vocational training programmes, “less than one per cent are gainfully employed.”
This, he told the press conference, was “totally at cross purposes with whatever was intended of the amnesty programme.
“These 350 individuals from Niger Delta are very brilliant with first class and second class upper degrees. The Federal Government at the time, decided that they should be employed in various federal ministries, departments and agencies. And this was supposed to happen in 2017,” he had said.
