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PAP: Kuku urges Ndiomu to revive, complete vocational centres in Niger Delta

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Kingsley Kuku, former Special Adviser on Niger Delta Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has urged the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Major General Barry Ndiomu (retd), to revive and complete all vocational training centres in the Niger Delta region.

Kuku, who also served as chairman of PAP under the Jonathan administration, made particular reference to the vandalised vocational training centre in Kaiama, Kolokuma Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, carried out by hoodlums in 2019.

Making the plea at the Presidential Amnesty Office in Abuja on Wednesday, when he paid a courtesy visit to the interim administrator, Kuku regretted that the facility would undoubtedly cost billions of naira to revive.

โ€œBring back the centre, no matter what it will cost you,โ€ he said, adding that the facility, when revived, can serve as an advanced training centre for universities in the region, even beyond being a facility for training ex-agitators.

Kuku commended the late President Umar Yarโ€™Adua, ex-Presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari, as well as incumbent President Bola Tinubu for the creation and sustenance of the programme.

On malicious media attacks against Ndiomu, Kuku urged the interim administrator to remain steadfast in his โ€œcommendableโ€ resolve to impact lives in the Niger Delta.

โ€œNobody will thank you or appreciate you as interim administrator. The only thing you will get is abuse. But they will thank you tomorrow,โ€ Kuku added.

Commending the Aviation Resuscitation Programme for pilots and aircraft maintenance engineers, under which some of the beneficiaries are currently undergoing their type-rating certification programme in South Africa, he said: โ€œIn todayโ€™s aviation industry, any pilot without a type-rating is nothing. You are touching lives. After what you are doing for them now, they will get jobs easily.โ€

He expressed delight that Ndiomu has brought hope to the Niger Delta and assured of his unalloyed support for sustaining the gains of the amnesty programme.

Earlier in his remarks, Ndiomu told Kuku that his administration is resolutely building on many of his legacies, adding that the enormous number of graduates under the amnesty scheme today can be traced to his (Kukuโ€™s) doggedness to better the lives of ex-agitators.

Ndiomu regretted that after such hard work and efforts put in by Kuku, it was โ€œdisappointingโ€ and โ€œembarrassingโ€ that his administration came on board and inherited huge debts.

โ€œFor me, it was a bit irresponsible and reckless. But I came in here to surmount these challenges,โ€ he said.

While noting that the Amnesty Programme has not fully lived up to its objectives, Ndiomu recommended a possible transition of the scheme into โ€œa social investment agencyโ€ to impact the lives of youths in the region directly.

Ndiomu further lamented the vandalisation of the Kaiama Vocational Training Centre in Bayelsa. He disclosed that when completed, the vocational training centre in Agadagba-Obon in Ese-Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State will be named after Kuku.

The Amnesty Office also disclosed that 106 out of over 800 beneficiaries have been trained and certified in various digital skills in its partnership with the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and over 600 are currently undergoing various digital courses.


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