PAP, NCDMB Collaborate To Train, Empower Ex- Militants

THE Presidential Amnesty Programme ( PAP) and the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board ( NCDMB) have agreed to build the capacity of ex- militants benefitting from the amnesty programme. Delegates from the board and amnesty office reached the agreement to take advantage of local content opportunities in the oil and gas sector at a crucial meeting held at the weekend in NCDMB’S Content Tower in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

Interim Administrator of PAP, Col. Milland Dixon Dikio ( rtd), enumerated the vision and strategic plans of the programme under him, saying come entrepreneurs and emeverything was being done to ployers of labour. reposition the scheme to He stressed that the amnesty achieve its original mandate of programme under his watch security and development of was determined to turn exthe region. agitators into active ecoHe explained that as a delibernomic players, no longer ate arrangement, there was an depending on monthly ongoing interface with key stipends and handouts for stakeholders to get them insurvival. volved in overall transformaThe PAP boss further hightion of PAP and its beneficiaries, lighted the role of the as well, so as to get the desired NCDMB in realising the Niger results. Delta Recover y Plan ( NDRP). Dikio in a statement signed by “We assure NCDMB of the his Special Assistant on Media, commitment of the PAP to be Nneotaobase Egbe, said the willing partners to address management decided to apthe core issues in the region proach NCDMB because the and the general aspirations strategic position of the board of the people all geared towould be an added boost in the wards peace and developtraining of ex- agitators to be- ment,” he said.