More than 200 Ex-militants might get jobs as Amnesty office starts verification
- The Presidential Amnesty Programme Office has commenced verification
- The verification is to know the exact number of ex-militants expected in the programme as part of its exit plans
- The verified ex-militants might get jobs when the verification is over
The verification of ex-militants has commenced in order to help the Presidential Amnesty Programme Office ascertain the correct number of those expected in the programme as part of its exit plans.
Brig-Gen. Paul Boroh (rtd), who is the coordinator, revealed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday, January 7.
Boroh, who is also the special adviser to President Buhari on Niger Delta, assured Nigerians of the President's commitment to the training and empowerment of all beneficiaries captured under the programme.
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He also revealed that the more than 3,010 delegates, who recently exited the programme had been empowered by the government.
Boroh explained the process saying: “Exiting from the programme is as a result of empowerment and delegates are given starter packs for their businesses.
“The office trains the ex-militants in various vocational skill centres and educational institutions in Nigeria and abroad.”
He also revealed that the mandate of the office is not to provide jobs, but to train and reintegrate the ex-militants.
“Well, some people could argue that getting jobs for them is part of reintegration. We have to look into that to see how we can get these persons properly reintegrated,” he said.
The presidential adviser also revealed that 200 ex-agitators had graduated from an advanced agriculture training at the Bio Resource Centre in Odi, Bayelsa State.
He spoke about getting them jobs, saying:
“We will explore the opportunity provided by the Federal Government so that our delegates that had been trained can be gainfully employed."
Boroh went on to encourage agriculture, saying that it should be supported at all levels of national life so that the country could become a multicultural economy that depends less on oil.
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According to him, some of the industries include the Aluminium Smelting Company in Akwa Ibom and the Aladja Steel in Delta state.
Boroh concluded: “These would provide employment for tens of thousands of youths in the Niger Delta.”
Meanwhile, as Nigeria prophets continue releasing prophecies for 2017, ex-Niger Delta militants have also made known their prophecy with a warning to Nigerian pastors to forthwith stop death prophecies against President Muhammadu Buhari.
Watch a video on the payment of Niger Delta militants below:
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