retired Brig General Paul Boroh
The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Co-ordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, retired Brig General Paul Boroh, yesterday said the 120 former Niger Delta militants who were trained abroad as pilots were unemployable because they were yet to undergo the last stage of their training.
The ex-agitators were trained in Germany, Jordan, South Africa, USA and UAE, according to the special adviser.
Boroh, who was addressing journalists on the activities of the Amnesty Office, said without undergoing the type-written training, they would be unemployable.
However, he pointed out that plans had already been concluded to send them back to complete their training.
Boroh said: “That is the final stage of the training, an industrial kind of training you need to qualify for employment as a pilot. All these years that this place was running, they were not given that training. They did not do that specialized course that would qualify them for employment.
“The Maintenance Engineers that need type-written training are 39, the helicopter engineers are 32. Oil & gas are over 50.”
But he pointed out that irrespective of the trade or profession they learnt, all of them would be trained to focus on agriculture because of the present administration’s efforts to diversify from oil to agriculture and mineral resources.
Out of the 30,000 ex-agitators, he said 26,606 had been trained, remaining 13,395, many of which would also be launched into agriculture.
Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/120-ex-militants-trained-as-pilots-unemployable-boroh/160083.html?platform=hootsuite#HQKF3HFOT7h1I4hT.99
The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Co-ordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, retired Brig General Paul Boroh, yesterday said the 120 former Niger Delta militants who were trained abroad as pilots were unemployable because they were yet to undergo the last stage of their training.
The ex-agitators were trained in Germany, Jordan, South Africa, USA and UAE, according to the special adviser.
Boroh, who was addressing journalists on the activities of the Amnesty Office, said without undergoing the type-written training, they would be unemployable.
However, he pointed out that plans had already been concluded to send them back to complete their training.
Boroh said: “That is the final stage of the training, an industrial kind of training you need to qualify for employment as a pilot. All these years that this place was running, they were not given that training. They did not do that specialized course that would qualify them for employment.
“The Maintenance Engineers that need type-written training are 39, the helicopter engineers are 32. Oil & gas are over 50.”
But he pointed out that irrespective of the trade or profession they learnt, all of them would be trained to focus on agriculture because of the present administration’s efforts to diversify from oil to agriculture and mineral resources.
Out of the 30,000 ex-agitators, he said 26,606 had been trained, remaining 13,395, many of which would also be launched into agriculture.
Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/120-ex-militants-trained-as-pilots-unemployable-boroh/160083.html?platform=hootsuite#HQKF3HFOT7h1I4hT.99
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