The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of Amnesty Programme, Gen. Paul Boroh (rtd) says beneficiaries who have been graduating from various skills and vocational training abroad are been sourced all over the world by employers of labour._2.jpeg?itok=APpsnyDc)
Gen. Boroh made this revelation on Wednesday, when the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board led his team on a collaboration visit to the Amnesty Office in Abuja.
The SAP who expressed satisfaction with the visit by NCDMB, said the task before the Office now is how to engage the trainees locally to enable them make lasting impact before they could leave for other countries currently seeking their services.
The SAP who expressed satisfaction with the visit by NCDMB, said the task before the Office now is how to engage the trainees locally to enable them make lasting impact before they could leave for other countries currently seeking their services.
‘‘The collaboration so far has been very encouraging because beneficiaries who have been graduating from various skills and vocational training abroad have indicated that they are been sourced all over the world.
‘‘But I prefer them to come first to the country, make their impact before they leave for other countries like Cote Voire that is asking them to come.’’
‘‘But I prefer them to come first to the country, make their impact before they leave for other countries like Cote Voire that is asking them to come.’’
In his address, the Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Denzil Ketebe said their mission was to seek possible areas of collaboration with the Amnesty Office to engage the graduating beneficiaries of the programme in the oil and gas sector as part of effort to grow the local content.
According the visit was significant in that the Amnesty programme has been engaging and redirecting the ex-agitators to meaningful and rewarding ventures that would guarantee their brighter future.
‘‘We are here to see how we can collaborate with the office of the Special Adviser to President on Niger Delta and Amnesty Programme, in trying to create enabling environment in the region and as well as creating employment opportunities for our people in that region and the rest of the country.
‘‘We are here to see how we can collaborate with the office of the Special Adviser to President on Niger Delta and Amnesty Programme, in trying to create enabling environment in the region and as well as creating employment opportunities for our people in that region and the rest of the country.
‘‘The visit is necessary because the Amnesty programme of the last regime and this regime is there to create this opportunities for our students.
‘‘I am aware that about 17,000 beneficiaries have so far been trained as at the last count and our own office is to make sure that these Nigerians are integrated into the oil and gas sector as part of our mandate to grow the local content.
‘‘The collaboration is there, they have trained and now we are looking for people to integrate. If we partner together, I think we can make a move to making sure that Nigerians are being employed into oil and gas sector and other sectors of the economy.’’
In his response, Gen. Boroh said the visit was timely given that it came at a time the Office was strategizing on how to place the graduating beneficiaries of the programme.
He boasted that the Amnesty Programme has all it takes to collaborate with partners in creating the expected and enabling environment by the government, in a bid to achieve the needed result in the oil region.
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