Milliand Dikio
The Interim Administrator (IA) of Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd) weekend declared that the era of violence and arms struggle in the Niger Delta region has finally gone.
This according to him has “given way to new ideas in intellectual space, driven by science and technology to advance speedy development and growth of the people.
Dikio said this during the graduation of 200 delegates of Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) from the training facility of Bradama International Skill Works Ltd at Agadagba-Obon in Ondo State.
According to him “the success story of PAP has affirmed that given the right orientation and skill, youths from the region had risen to the technological challenge of the 21st century as better alternative to arms struggle.
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Ex-militants from the coastal area of Ondo State appealed to the state government to not make them regret surrendering their arms and ammunitions to the Federal Government, following their alleged exclusion from the Presidential Amnesty Programme.
This plea was made by the over 6000 militants from Ilaje and Ese – Odo Local Government Areas of the state during their visit to the headquarters of Ondo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (OSOPADEC) in Akure, the state capital.
Speaking on behalf of the ex-militants, their spokesperson General Job Omotua, lamented that they were lured into submitting their arms but were later abandoned by the state and federal government.
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Minister of State, Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva has sued for sustainable peace in the Niger Delta, saying the quest to have multinational oil companies relocate their operational headquarters to the region cannot be achieved in an atmosphere of rancour and violence.
Sylva gave the charge at the weekend in Abuja when the Niger Delta Nonviolence Agitators Forum NDNAF invested him as its patron and peace ambassador.
People of the Niger Delta had for some years been clamouring for multinationals to relocate their headquarters to the region in order to boost economic activities in the area and douse ethnic tensions.
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