PAP Scholarship: 70 Niger Delta Students Depart For UK

By Ayodele Oni

Another batch of 70 students are United Kingdom- (UK) bound as the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) approved their studies abroad.

The students make up the second batch of beneficiaries of PAP scholarship programme.

Otuaro warned the beneficiaries against abandoning their studies in the UK and engaging in anti-social vices and misconducts that could cost them their scholarship education.

The Administrator used the pre-departure event at the Headquarters of PAP in Abuja to thank President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for upholding his promise to the people of Niger Delta.

“I’d like to thank President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for what he is doing for the Niger Delta people through this Programme. I’d like to thank him for the support he has given to PAP over the years. Also, I’d like to thank the National Security Adviser (NSA) for his huge support.

“I’d like to thank all the management and staff of PAP that made the Programme a success. I appreciate all of you for your support and cooperation.

“The success of PAP is not achieved by just one person, but by all of us. I thank all the critical stakeholders of the Programme who are here and those who are in the communities and creeks of Niger Delta.

“To all the beneficiaries, go to the UK and come back to add values to your community and country. Don’t run away. This is not an opportunity to japa. It is an opportunity to study and gain valuable knowledge that the Niger Delta and Nigeria need.”

Otuaro reiterated that the beneficiaries were carefully selected for the valuable courses they were going abroad to pursue with the scholarship in line with PAP’s deliberate effort aimed at closing the human resource capacity gap in the Niger Delta.

“Today, you have an opportunity. Tomorrow, it will be another person. I don’t want any of you to abuse this opportunity. It is because of past abuses that our opportunities were streamlined to the extent that only the UK is accepting our students now.

“Some people who had opportunities like this were even used against the Programme when they got abroad. Let us make good use of this opportunity for other people to benefit in the future and for the good image of Nigeria,” Otuaro admonished.”