Adopt new approach for N-Delta dev, Dikio urges new INC leadership
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By Emem Idio – Yenagoa
THE newly inaugurated leadership of the Ijaw National Congress,INC, has been urged to adopt new approach in its agitation to attract development to the Niger Delta region.
Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme ,PAP, Col. Milland Dixion Dikio ,retd, who made the appeal in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital during the inauguration of the new President of INC, Prof. Benjamin Okaba and his National Executive Committee, said it was time Ijaw elders embraced development-focused mindset to ensure transformation of the region.
Congratulating the INC for a successful election, the amnesty boss pledged to partner with the congress for positive advancement of the Niger Delta, describing the inauguration as the dawn of a new day in Ijawland.
The Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixion Dikio (retd) has appealed to the newly inaugurated leadership of the Ijaw National Congress (INC) to adopt new approach in its agitation to attract development to the Niger Delta region.
Dikio, who spoke in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, during the inauguration of the new President, INC, Prof. Benjamin Okaba and his National executive Committee, said it was time Ijaw elders embraced development-focused mindset to ensure transformation of the region.
Congratulating the INC for a successful election, the amnesty boss pledged to partner with the congress for positive advancement of the Niger Delta describing the inauguration as the dawn of a new day in Ijawland.
Bayelsa speaker, others commend Dikio for reforms in PAP
The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Colonel Milland Dixon Dikio (Rtd), says the era of servicing contractors and their cronies are gone for good.
He said that the PAP will no longer patronize contractors at the expense of the real owners of the programme which are the ex-agitators, just as it will no longer fund the scholarship of students in areas that are not of comparative advantage to the region.
Dikio stated this on Friday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, during a parley with the leadership of the first phase of the PAP.
By Emem Idio, Yenagoa
The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Colonel Milland Dixon Dikio, Retd, says the era of servicing contractors and their cronies are gone for good.
He said that the PAP will no longer patronize contractors at the expense of the real owners of the programme which are the ex-agitators, just as it will no longer fund the scholarship of students in areas that are not of comparative advantage to the region.
Dikio stated this on Friday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, during a parley with the leadership of the first phase of the PAP.
Col Dikio said that the PAP would no longer patronize contractors at the expense of the real owners of the programme which are the ex-agitators, just as it would no longer fund the scholarship of students in areas that are not of comparative advantage to the region.
He stated this on Friday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, during a parley with the leadership of the first phase of the programme.
Col Dikio decried the existing situation which allows contractors to gulp 85 per cent of the total funds accrued to the PAP, while those the programme was instituted for are left with the remaining fraction, stressing that it was hardly enough for training and empowering them.