Pauline Onyibe 
The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty P r o g r a m m e , Dr Dennis Otuaro, has urged delegates of the PAP and youths of the Niger Delta to safeguard the prevailing peace in the region.
Otuaro advised them to realise that protecting the region from violent actions and disruption of the peace would attract more businesses and increase economic growth in the area and Nigeria in general.
He stated this at the weekend while addressing leaders and members of the Phase One, Phase Two, Phase Three, and other youths of the region at the day-three of the PAP Office’s expanded stakeholders’ meeting in Warri, Delta State.
Otuaro, in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr Igoniko Oduma, yesterday, described the PAP delegates and Niger Delta youths as worthy partners for peace-building, development and investment in the region.
He said: “The Presidential Amnesty Programme is your programme, and you are all important partners in the peace process of the Niger Delta. “As far as this programme is concerned, you are partners for peace, development, investment and economic growth in the Niger and Nigeria as a whole.”
He said the office believes in engagement of stakeholders’ and empowerment of delegates, beneficiaries and youths particularly through its educational and vocational programmes.
The PAP boss, while thanking the delegates for their consistent support for him, the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) and President Bola Tinubu, reassured them that the president was serious in his desire to complete the East-West Road and other big-ticket infrastructural projects in the region.
Otuaro also stated that the President had given his nod to an upward review of the annual budgetary allocation to the office, stressing that this would enhance inclusion of more youths and women in the initiatives of the PAP.
