Year of paradigm shift at PAP
The establishment of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, was the magic wand with which the late President Umaru Yar’ Adua peacefully ended militancy in the Niger Delta in 2009. It forever endeared him to the people of the region. The programme was designed to provide the framework for disarmament and reintegration of ex-militants. It offered […]
Jettison any plan to shut down PAP, Diri urges FG
By Emem Idio, Yenagoa The Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has appealed to the Federal Government to shelve any plan to shut down the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, insisting that the programme was yet to achieve its mandate saying even the disarmament phase of the scheme had not been fully realised as arms […]
Ex-agitator lauds Okowa on appointment
By Etop Ekanem The Vice Chairman of Coalition of Urhobo/Isoko Phases 1, 2 and 3 of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, ‘Gen.’ Solomon Adu, yesterday, commended Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State for appointing him as one of his Special Assistants. Adu who lauded the Okowa’s administration on appointments of youths in his administration across […]
PAP: Phase 3 ex-agitators block East/West road over exclusion, non payment of stipends
By Etop Ekanem The Phase 3 ex-agitators leaders of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, yesterday, barricaded the busy East/West road along Ughelli, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State for hours on alleged exclusion of its members and non payment of monthly N65,000 stipends to members by the amnesty office under the administrative head […]
Amnesty: Remain calm, peaceful, Bobo tells undocumented ex-militants’ leaders
NATIONAL Chairman of the third phase of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Mr. Tonye Bobo has advised “genuine” undocumented ex-militants camp leaders in the phase to remain calm and peaceful, saying their complaints would be looked into by the amnesty office.
PAP and direct deployment to schools without enabling exams
By J.P. Owoupele IN the last few weeks I have been called by many stakeholders, delegates and beneficiaries of the aforementioned programme. Their worry is that the office demands that all students must write JAMB or pass through a test to be deployed to higher institutions of learning. History: When the programme started the managers of […]
