Otuaro urges PAP scholarship students to justify investment

The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr. Dennis Otuaro, has encouraged students under the programme’s foreign scholarship scheme to justify the Federal Government’s investment in them by taking their studies seriously.

Otuaro advised a meeting with the PAP scholarship students currently studying in the United Kingdom (UK) yesterday. PAP’s boss, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, IgonikoOduma, yesterday, said that a lot is expected of the students in their academic performance to justify the Federal Government’s investment in their education.

Otuaro told them that the PAP scholarship scheme had produced graduates who made first-class and second-class upper divisions in competitive disciplines, including the sciences and clinical sciences. He urged them to sustain the story of academic excellence by their counterparts back home in the foreign country.

According to him, many PAP graduates are doing very well in their post-graduation endeavours, contributing significantly to national growth and development.
The PAP Administrator stated that his administration is putting measures in place to make the scholarship scheme more robust to bridge the human capacity gap in the Niger Delta.

Otuaro noted that he would continually prioritise the scholarship and welfare of students studying in Nigerian, and foreign universities under the ongoing reintegration phase of the programme.

He added that this was in tandem with the vision of President Bola Tinubu for the peace, security, stability, and socio-economic development of the Niger Delta, as encapsulated in his Renewed Hope Agenda.