Former agitators in the Niger Delta gave commended President Muhammadu Buhari fir his appointment of Major-General Barry Ndiomu as the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP).
The National Secretary of the First Phase former agitators, Pastor Nature Keighe, in a statement in Yenagoa, also commended President Buhari for not allowing any vacuum in the amnesty office.
Keighe, Chairman, PAP’s Strategic Communication Committee (SCC), assured that the group would support Ndiomu the same way they supported the former administrator, retired Col. Milland Dixon Dikio.
Keighe urged Ndiomu, as a leader and a father, to sustain the existing programmes initiated by PAP, which, he said, has fostered peace in the Niger Delta.
Keighe had declared: “We want to formally appreciate Mr. President for not allowing any vacuum in PAP. We want to appreciate him for appointing Maj.-Gen. Ndiomu as the new Interim Administrator, PAP.
“We want to use the opportunity to welcome our leader and father to the office of PAP. We will give him all the support he needs for the interest of the Niger Delta region.
“What we have begun to do with PAP under the leadership of Col. Milland Dixon Dikio, we will do it for his administration, with the focus of ensuring that the Niger Delta becomes a more peaceful environment for people to do business for development.
“We will bring to your notice, the various programmes we have been undertaking in the region to sustain the peace. We wish you all the best and pray God to guide and give you wisdom to pilot the affairs of the region.
“As ex-agitators in the region, our responsibility is to protect the region and every programme that is positioned to enhance the human capacity development of the region.”