The
Federal Government has concluded a plan to engage 10,000 youths from the
oil-bearing communities to secure pipelines in the Niger Delta region.
The
Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Chairman of the
Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh, announced the plan at a
press conference yesterday in Abuja .
When
asked if the plan to engage the 10,000 youths would not be hijacked, Boroh said
the exercise would involve the leadership of the various communities who had
forwarded names of youths from the oil-producing communities to his office.
He
added that the programme was designed to ensure that those from the producing
areas were given the opportunity to benefit from it, stressing that the
involvement of community leaders would make it impossible for the programme to
be hijacked.
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