FG Restates Commitment To Restoring Peace In N’Delta

The Federal Government says it has a deep concern about the challenges facing the Niger Delta and it is committed to ensuring that lasting peace prevails in the region, hence, the introduction and sustenance of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP).
Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, General Paul T. Boroh (rtd), made the clarification at the weekend while commissioning a business outfit, ‘Meltam Spring Ventures’ established at No. 10 Grammer School Road, Ibuluya-Ama, Okrika by the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Kaiba Green Giant Farms Limited, Mr Henry Alaye Lawson, under the Federal Government’s Youth Empowerment Programme.
“We are concerned about the problems of the Niger Delta and we are doing everything possible to ensure that the region is peaceful in line with the Presidential Amnesty Programme through the empowerment of the youth”, Boro said.
According to him, “we are achieving the peace. No amount of money can restore peace in the Niger Delta and the country in general but it is the corporate effort and understanding by the youths that can bring and promote peace.
We don’t want what happened in the past to continue”.
Advising beneficiaries of the empowerment package to take their investments seriously and be focused, the Presidential Adviser enjoined the facilitator of the commissioned outfit, Mr Alaye, to be patient with his beneficiaries and delegates and encouraged them on how to make good use of the opportunities  offered them by the PAP to enable their ventures grow.
In his speech, the Executive Director/CEO of Kaiba Green Giant Farms Ltd, Mr Henry Alaye Lawson, applauded the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, General Paul Boro (rtd) for his efforts at ensuring that the federal government’s goal toward achieving lasting peace in the region is actualized.
According to Alaye, whose company has empowered 20 out of 40 delegates under Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Rivers states unit of the PAP, plans are underway to train and empower more youths in different skills including education in institutions of higher learning, adding that his company pay monthly stipends to those yet to be empowered.
He appealed to the Federal Government to continue with the good support it is giving to Niger Delta youths, pointing out that by so doing, restiveness, kidnapping, cultism, pipeline vandalisation and other crime-related offences would soon be a thing of the past in the region.

Shedie Okpara