PAP stipend is transitional allowance, not salary’, Phase Two chairman tells beneficiaries
…Says calls for review are misplaced By Emem Idio, Yenagoa The National Chairman of Phase Two of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Ibena Rufus Salvation, has said the monthly payment to beneficiaries is a transitional allowance, not a salary, stressing that demands for an upward review are inconsistent with the objectives of the amnesty initiative. […]
PAP suspends scholarship of two amnesty beneficiaries
By Dickson Omobola The Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, has suspended two students from its scholarship scheme for what it described as making spurious allegations against the leadership of PAP. The students were identified as Patrick Ipidei and Papems Peter Etolor. PAP leadership said this in a statement by Mr. Freston Akpor, Special Assistant, Media to […]
PAP: Ndiomu seeks support of traditional rulers
Interim Administrator of Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (retd), has sought the cooperation and support of traditional rulers in the Niger Delta region for the success of the scheme. Ndiomu, who noted that as custodians of the culture and tradition of their people, the monarchs command enormous influence which they can […]
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 […]
