Ijaw Youths applaud Tinubu, Ribadu over PAP scholarship expansion

…Urge Otuaro to Ignore Critics, Sustain Reforms

By John Alechenu, Abuja

The Ijaw Youth Network (IYN) has commended President Bola Tinubu and the National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, for what it described as the unprecedented expansion of scholarship and training programmes under the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP).

The group also urged the PAP Administrator, Dr Dennis Otuaro, to remain focused and disregard what it termed distractions from critics of the programme.

In a statement signed by its President, Frank Ebikabo, and Secretary, Federal Ebiaridor, and made available to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, the group said Otuaro’s leadership had widened access to education, skills acquisition and vocational training for Niger Delta youths and delegates.