A group known as Critical Stakeholders Forum of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has faulted as “unfounded” and “malicious” the sponsored attacks on the leadership of Dr. Dennis Otuaro at the Presidential Amnesty office.
According to the group, made up of Ex-Agitators and leaders from the Niger Delta region, Otuaro’s leadership of the PAP has sanitised and reposition the Amnesty programme to effectively execute its mandate of rehabilitating, training, and reintegrating beneficiaries.
The Critical Stakeholders Forum of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, in a statement signed by its Chairman, Chief Reuben C.Wilson, passed a vote of confidence on the PAP Administrator, reaffirming their faith in his competence and transformational leadership.
According to the statement, “we condemn the sponsored criticism against Dr. Dennis Otuaro as he is a blessing to the PAP and the Niger Delta region.”
The PAP Administrator has enthroned transparency and accountability, making the programme more result-oriented and productive.
The stakeholders urged critics to be factual, constructive, and patriotic in their comments, eschewing bitterness and negative political sentiments.
They specifically called on Owusu Owupele and his group to conduct an objective analysis of Otuaro’s reforms and policies at PAP, and to render an unreserved apology for their malicious and unfounded statements against the person of Otuaro.
The group believed that a united, peaceful, and prosperous Niger Delta is in the best interest of all stakeholders and urged patriotic Niger Deltans and genuine PAP beneficiaries to support Otuaro in his bid to transform the PAP, and to focus on the successful implementation of the programme.
The Critical Stakeholders Forum in the statement signed by its chairman, Chief Reuben C. Wilson, commended Otuaro’s leadership and vision, describing him as a true ambassador of the Niger Delta people.
They called on all stakeholders to give Otuaro the needed encouragement and enabling working environment to optimally perform his duties.
