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April 16, 2019
The Presidential Amnesty Programmesays that 11,297 beneficiaries out of 30,000 captured in its database are yetto be trained or deployed for formal education as of March 2018.
Special Assistant on Media to theCoordinator of the programme, Murphy Ganagana, said this in Abuja.
Ganagana said that so far 1,401beneficiaries have been trained in various skills and 1,165 already trainedbeneficiaries have been empowered in various trade areas from March 2018 todate.
According to him, 1,230beneficiaries are on scholarship and deployed to 11 partnering institutions inNig
eria between Jan. 30 and Jan. 31.
He also said that five Greekcompanies are to train 2,500 Amnesty delegates out of which 2,000 would beemployed at the end of their training.Ganagana said that in a bid to further encouragehuman development in the Niger Delta region, the Amnesty office created a JobPlacement and International Development Partners Engagement Unit in May 2018