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

Otuaro gave the advice during his meeting with the PAP scholarship students currently studying in the United Kingdom on Sunday, August 18, 2024.

Otuaro said much is expected from the students in their academic performance to justify the federal government’s investment in their education.

He stated the PAP scholarship scheme had produced a large number of graduates who made first-class and second-class upper divisions in competitive disciplines, including sciences and clinical sciences.

The PAP boss also enjoined the students 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 and contributing significantly to national growth and development.

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Otuaro, according to a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Igoniko Oduma, on Monday, August 19, stated that his administration was putting measures in place to make the scholarship scheme more robust to bridge the human capacity gap in the Niger Delta.

Otuaro said 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 said 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’.

Otuaro, therefore, urged the students to be good ambassadors of the PAP, their respective communities, the Niger Delta, and the federal government by shunning negative acts that would bring a bad reputation to the country as a whole.

In their reaction, the students expressed gratitude to the PAP boss for visiting them and prioritising their scholarship and welfare.

They also promised to be good ambassadors and to do their best to justify the investment in their education and future.

The Star