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The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Dr Dennis Otuaro, has reiterated his strong admonition for beneficiaries of the programme’s foreign post-graduate sponsorship to do well for the country and themselves in their studies.
Otuaro spoke at the pre-departure briefing for another batch of 12 foreign post-graduate scholarship beneficiaries deployed to universities in the United Kingdom, which held at the PAP headquarters in Abuja.
The orientation featured talks on “Social and Cultural Relations in the UK”, “Academic Expectations”, “The Administration of the Scholarship”, and the presentation of laptop to each of the scholarship beneficiaries to enhance their research and thesis work.
He urged the scholars not to disappoint President Bola Tinubu and the Federal Government and the Niger Delta, stressing that they are a legacy of the PAP’s academic sponsorships that will manifest in the years ahead.
He said President Tinubu and the Office of the National Security Adviser are happy over the huge number of beneficiaries so far sent overseas by the PAP, as some people had thought that the programme’s foreign scholarship component would no longer be carried out.
According to him, President Tinubu and the NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, are genuinely interested in the region’s human capital development and socio-economic growth and they are massively supporting the programme’s initiatives.
“Today, we are sending you outside the country for post-graduate programmes in the United Kingdom and we believe that we are sending out our best” Otuaro stated.
“There should be no room for laxity, put in your best and make the best for yourselves. We are careful in the selection process because we don’t want anybody to abuse the system under my watch”
The PAP boss reassured Niger Delta stakeholders of his leadership’s unshakable commitment to doing what is right at all times in the interest of the region and indeed the country.
Some of the foreign post-graduate scholarship beneficiaries, including Arafiena Shekinah Nkem (MSc Project Management, University of Liverpool) and Omokaro Rick Efosa (MSc Supply Chain & Logistics Management, Coventry University), expressed gratitude to President Tinubu, the NSA, and Otuaro for the opportunity and pledged to study hard.
