The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide has thrown its weight behind the Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), High Chief Dennis Brutu Otuaro, describing him as the best and most suitable for the job, even as the IYC admit that he is truly reforming the Amnesty Programme.
This was made known during a visit to the Administrator Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), in Abuja, by President of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide, Sir Jonathan Lokpobiri Snr, who led members of the 9th NEC of Council.
IYC President Jonathan Lokpobiri Snr while lauding Otuaro for bringing the programme back to the Niger Delta people with a lot of positive impacts, noted that the PAP Administrator has clearly demonstrated that he is no doubt a product of the struggle.
Speaking further, the IYC President had particularly called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives and other critical stakeholders in the polity to consider urgently the increment of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) annual budget, stressing that the budget which the programme has been operating since 2009 can no longer meet up with the current economic realities, adding that there is the urgent need for increment and review.
The IYC also lauded Otuaro for his painstaking stakeholders engagements across the Niger Delta region, stressing that his stakeholders engagements has contributed greatly towards the sustenance of peace in the region.
Nevertheless, Lokpobiri had declared that the IYC is impress with the performance of Otuaro so far as Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) hence the number one youth organisation in Niger Delta is in total support of the Administrator and his reforms.
In a swift reaction, the Administrator Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), High Chief Dennis Otuaro had appreciated the IYC for the visit, maintaining that he will not renege in his quest to give PAP a new and better phase.
Otuaro stated further that he will not allow blackmails from mischief makers to distract him as he is so focused in delivering on PAP’s mandate.
Meanwhile, the Administrator had urged Niger Deltans to continue to support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as he meant well for the Niger Delta region and her people.
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