Foreign amnesty students not being owed by the FG – Boroh

Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta/Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Office, Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh, said beneficiaries of the offshore programme abroad have been paid their school fees, upkeeps and other allowances.

Boroh disclosed this in a statement by the Director of Information, Amnesty Office, Charles Dafe, on Saturday in Abuja.

He denied reports that the beneficiaries are being owed.

He said 90 per cent of the beneficiaries would graduate in December.

The coordinator also disclosed that the office would be left with only 10 per cent of the beneficiaries on scholarship abroad.

He said, “with our beneficiaries in onshore Nigerian universities including those on vocational training, our office if fully up to date in settling their educational and empowerment requirements.

“we have no funding issue in settling our offshore and onshore students.

“There are other developmental agencies for the Niger Delta region that have granted scholarships to students abroad and may have payment issues for their students, they are not sponsored by Presidential Amnesty Office,’’ he said.

He alleged that some of the changes he had introduced into the programme, like domestication of the programmes that did not require sending beneficiaries abroad, had precipitated unfair attacks by those it affected.

“These government well-considered changes or policies are meant to reduce government expenditure and are in the best interest of the country.

“The policy changes in the programme affected some students, who failed their studies and expect the government to fund their endless time of studies.

“It also affected militants not originally captured in the programme pressurising to be part and those that have benefitted first degree but insisting that the programmes must see them up to doctorate degree level,’’ he said.

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