{"id":3549,"date":"2025-03-19T12:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/pap-otuaro-transforming-presidential-amnesty-programme__says-niger-delta-ex-militants-commends-tinubu-for-his-appointment\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T12:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:10:01","slug":"pap-otuaro-transforming-presidential-amnesty-programme__says-niger-delta-ex-militants-commends-tinubu-for-his-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/pap-otuaro-transforming-presidential-amnesty-programme__says-niger-delta-ex-militants-commends-tinubu-for-his-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"PAP: Otuaro Transforming Presidential Amnesty Programme__Says Niger Delta Ex-Militants, Commends Tinubu For His Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Freeborn Abraye <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Repentant militants have hailed the coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Chief Dennis Otuaro, for successfully interpreting President Bola Tinubu\u2019s vision of the programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This follows acceptance of the federal government\u2019s amnesty programme by the first phase ex-militant leaders who have begun the processes of getting fresh leaders to coordinate their activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pioneer President of the first phase ex-militants forum, Pastor Reuben Wilson speaking with journalists after their meeting said they could not fold their hands and watch people run down a man who was doing well for the amnesty programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acknowledging that they were proud of Otuaro\u2019s efforts in stabilising the PAP and deliberately ensuring that beneficiaries of the amnesty programme got their dues as and when due, leaders of the first phase repentant militants said those attacking Otuaro were doing so for selfish reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe man is doing very well in the office as the administrator. He has done very well; he has tried. At least, he is truly taking the amnesty programme to higher heights. He\u2019s been someone that has been in the struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne hundred per cent of his stay in the Niger Delta creeks was for the struggle; so he knows all the (ex-militants camp) leaders by their names. And what he is doing now, we are really happy with it. We have noticed that we have some criminal elements that are trying to bring him down, but we are here to say that their actions will amount to nothing because they are not working in the interest of the amnesty programme.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilson, a major supporter and campaigner for the emergence of President Bola Tinubu also said it was the best decision to appoint Otuaro as head of the amnesty office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, it was gratifying to note that Otuaro was already giving proper expression to the president\u2019s dream of a properly managed amnesty office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said Tinubu must have seen how well Otuaro had managed the amnesty office, insisting that a greater percentage of the stakeholders were very happy with the coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe want him (Otuaro) to succeed and if we as major stakeholders say that Otuaro is good and active, that means he is good. We can confirm to the world that the PAP coordinator is doing excellently well. That is why we, in the course of our meeting, decided to pass a vote of confidence on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilson said part of the issues Otuaro had was his decision to close the doors against ghost contractors who were merely collecting monies but refusing to work. \u201cThere are people who were making millions of naira through the back door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, as Otuaro decided to end that regime, they decided to go against him. Now, there is no way for them to make the money they were making, hence their decision to start cooking up stories in order to rubbish the man. That is all that is playing out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also speaking, Prince Emeka Igwe, the Imo State coordinator of the group said \u201cOtuaro is trying to change the narrative, he is trying to change the old ways that things were being done and the system is fighting back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SA is reaching out to the grassroots, interfacing with everybody, making sure that those that own the programme will benefit from it; that is what is happening. All of us today passed a vote of confidence on him because of his leadership style. We are very, very happy with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnywhere we go, we say that he is trying and we want him to do more in this line that he is going. Let nothing distract him. Anytime, any day we are with him 100 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nature Dumale Kieghe, the pioneer secretary of the First Phase Ex-agitators in the Niger Delta who also spoke said \u201camong ex-agitators in the Niger Delta, over time we have been classified as the most responsible, as touching the way we do our things and presentations in different fora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have vowed that we will not bring down any of our own. We took that decision a long time ago, when Kingsley Kuko was special adviser to the president on amnesty. Now we have another administrator, in the person of Dr. Dennis Otuaro, who is also our own.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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