No fewer than 177 persons profiled from various communities across 20 distribution centres in the Niger Delta states, including Ondo, have benefited from a succour provided by the Presidential Amnesty Programme.
According to a statement from Murphy Ganagana, media aide to the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and coordinator of the Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Dokubo, the items for various trades distributed to the beneficiaries included welding equipment, tailoring, catering, deep freezers and generators of different sizes.
The exercise, which will eventually involve thousands of recipients drawn from various communities in Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Cross Rivers, Imo, Ondo, Akwa Ibom and Abia states, commenced in Warri, Delta State last Friday.
The statement said that at another phase of the empowerment programme in Rivers State on Sunday, Prof Dokubo described the gesture as a show of President Muhammadu Buhari’s love for the people of the oil rich Niger Delta.
Speaking on behalf of recipients of the items at the Warri distribution centre, the community leader in Ogbeinbin, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, Chief Solomon Ogumogu, commended the initiative. “We are happy for what is happening today. Since the beginning of the Amnesty Programme 2009, we have never experienced anything like this before. The Amnesty Programme was targeted at those involved in the armed struggle, the people that carried arms fighting for their freedom, but majority of communities in the Niger Delta had been neglected,” he was quoted as saying.
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