Managing director and chief executive officer of the Niger Delta Basin Development Authority, NDBDA, Prince Ebitimi Amgbare today met with the administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Dr. Dennis Otuaro in Abuja to discuss issues of development of the Niger Delta region.
Prince Amgbare recalled that the Niger Delta Basin Development Authority was conceived as a special purpose vehicle to drive development in the Niger Delta Basin. However, when it failed to achieve its goals aggitation in the region hightened giving birth to other interventionist agencies like the Directorate of Food Roads and Rural Infrastructure, DFRRI, Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission, OMPADEC, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and the latest being the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP.
The NDBDA helmsman noted that his visit was primarily to forge synergy with the PAP office to drive meaningful economic development of the region in line with the vision of the Willinks Commission of 1957.
Amgbare then informed Dr. Otuaro that his mission to PAP was to seek his cooperation to drive home the "Food Security Is The Real Security" campaign of his office.
In his response, Dr. Otuaro thanked Amgbare for the visit which he described as maiden and quite welcomed.
He reiterated the commitment of the PAP office to addressing the agitation of the Niger Delta people through various development strategies, noting that agriculture is one real means to achieving human and national security.
Dr. Otuaro hinted that PAP had planned to expand its dragnet to include scholarship programmes to non-arms bearers like women to learn vocational skills in an effort towards sustaining the desired lasting peace in the Niger Delta.
The PAP boss also promised to cooperate with NDBDA to tackle the perennial flooding and its concomitant challenges in the region.
Dr. Otuaro commended Amgbare for sustaining a sterling track record and his dedication to the development of the Niger Delta, assuring that he would not work at cross-purposes with him in executing Mr President's Renewed Hope Agenda in the Niger Delta region.
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