11 February 2011
The Federal Government may be forced to close down some of the centres currently providing training in skills acquisition and reintegration to ex-Niger Delta militants,
Special Adviser to the president on Niger Delta and Head of the Amnesty Programme, Mr. Kinsley Kuku said yesterday, disclosing that one of the six centres in Ghana had already be shut down.
Speaking at a meeting with amnesty programme trainers in Abuja
He warned that trainers who fail to meet the terms of the contract they signed with the government would be booted out of the programme.
He specifically cited the case of a supposed trainer in Lagos
“The amnesty office will go after those who took money and sublet the job or abandoned the job entirely,” the presidential aide said, even as he warned those who would want to shortchange the trainees that such act would not be tolerated. Noting that some trainers who do not have the facilities for effective training had made false presentations to be given the job, he said such centres stood the risk of being shut down because government was not prepared to compromise on the quality of training given to the ex-militants.
Describing the reintegration aspect as a critical success factor in the amnesty programme, Kuku said it was imperative that the trainees were equipped with training that would make them relevant to the society because the ex-militants were the future of the Niger Delta. “The various kinds of training will effectively transform them as agents of change and make them value-added to the society,” Kuku said, and pledged government’s support to the trainers.
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