About 10,000 youth from oil-rich Niger Delta communities will be eemployed by the Federal Government as surveillance and security officers at oil pipelines in the region.
Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh announced this at a news conference in Abuja, on Monday.
He said, “The Presidential Amnesty Programme is responsible for interacting with nine state governments, including Ondo State, and we are aware of what is happening there. They (kidnappers) are also part of those that will benefit from the Federal Government inclusive principle in ensuring that youth of the region are adequately accommodated in the areas of inclusiveness.
“Inclusiveness means what do we do in ensuring that youth from the oil-bearing communities are engaged adequately in the oil business. It could be pipeline surveillance, it could be part of the modular refinery initiative. These things will engage youth. Most youth have taken it beyond the normal approach because they are not adequately employed.
“This, the Federal Government is aware of, and is responsible for ensuring that they achieve in the principle of inclusiveness in the strategic Niger Delta programme. The Strategic Work Plan for the Niger Delta region is an inclusive work plan that will involve youth, particularly those from oil-bearing communities.
“I have got names of persons from almost all the states; we will collate them and when I meet with our ministerial group, we will look at it holistically to see how we can get them but nothing less than 10,000 youth are going to be engaged from oil producing states because it has to do with surveillance of pipelines. All of them are going to be included.”
Gen. Boroh explained that the exercise would involve the leadership of the communities, who forwarded names to his office.
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