By EgbemaVoice,
The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) on Wednesday launched a cooperative scheme aimed at empowering the over 30,000 ex-agitators in the Niger Delta region for them to become entrepreneurs and self-reliant.
Interim Administrator of PAP, Major-General Barry Indiomu, speaking at the official launch of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (Beneficiaries) Cooperative Society Limited (PAPCOSOL) in Abuja, said the new scheme was designed to discourage reliance on the N65,000 monthly stipend paid to ex-agitators, which he noted was no longer sustainable.
The founding of the Presidential Amnesty Programme in 2009 by the then Government of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was based on the need to restore stability to communities in the Niger Delta where protest activity had degenerated into endemic crisis.
The Presidential Amnesty boss, further disclosed that apart from the initial take-off grant of N1.5 billion for
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