The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dennis Otuaro, has said that President Bola Tinubu is very strategic in his approach to addressing the issues of development, economic growth, and sustainable peace in the Niger Delta.
Otuaro spoke weekend at a town hall meeting with PAP stakeholders and Niger Deltans residing in Lagos, hosted by prominent Niger Delta activist and Founder/President of Ijaw Monitoring Group, Chief Joseph Eva.
He stated that Tinubu’s strategy, as captured in his Renewed Hope Agenda, was working for the Niger Delta, and could be seen in his deliberate effort at tackling the challenges of development, security, and sustainable peace in the region.
The PAP boss said the Tinubu administration has not only restored peace in the area, but is also delivering on its campaign promises around human capacity and infrastructure development for the area.
Otuaro added that the solid support of the president and the national security adviser for the PAP is responsible for the expansion of the scholarship scheme and other milestone achievements the programme has recorded in vocational training, peacebuilding, and stakeholder engagement.
He told the stakeholders that while in-country scholarship deployment was 3800 in the 2024/2025 academic year, the figure increased to 3900 in 2025/2026, and foreign scholarships were about 200.
He assured them that the PAP under his leadership would continue to do its best to ensure that more indigent youths were provided access to higher educational attainments with the requisite skills and knowledge for self-reliance and nation building.
The PAP boss stressed that human resource development was pivotal to the socio-economic advancement and development of the region’s people as well as sustainable peace and security.
While thanking the president for not holding back support for the PAP, he reassured the stakeholders that Tinubu would do much more for the region after his re-election in 2027, and urged them to reciprocate his large-heartedness.
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Chief Joseph Eva expressed confidence in the PAP administrator’s leadership ability and commended him for the remarkable achievements the agency has recorded under him.
