Paul Boro has failed us ~ Victor James

The Niger Delta Youth Association Worldwide, a group that is committed to an egalitarian society and a vehicle for peace building in the Niger Delta Region has condemn the recent military invasion in Gbaramatu. 

In a statement made available to press men, the group through its International President,  Comr. Victor James also stated that the amnesty programme have failed following the appointment of Paul Boro.

"Firstly, Boro has failed to drive effectively the fundamental educational objective of the programme , given that upon his appointment he is yet to embark on a comprehensive national as well international assessment of issues militating against the effective implementations of the educational aspect of the program"

"As many as 1500 students both within and outside the shores of Nigeria are been owed at least 4 months of 'in-training and accommodation allowances' under Boroh's administration, this is a deliberate action by Boroh's administration to cover up his gross under-estimation of the Amnesty Budget, reason being that Boroh never put up a professional team of auditors for a thorough verification exercise but was hasty in declaring that the previous administration under Hon. Kingsley Kuku was corrupt and has a lot of ghost names in the program"

"This unsubstantiated claim led to a massive cut of the Amnesty Budget by the President Buhari's led administration and this has impacted negatively on the effective running of the education aspect of the program."

"In fact in terms of relating with those who learnt various trades in order to get them ready for re-integration which I think that he should work hand in hand with the Niger Delta Ministry and the NDDC to achieve this objective, rather relations between Boroh and the trainees is at its lowest ebb since the emergence of the Amnesty Program. So far nothing has changed and no impact has been felt, instead the failure of proper communication and networking is creating more agitators who might have some connection with the 'Niger Delta Avengers" he noted

"The educational scheme of the amnesty program have really empowered the youths of the region academically and if the enabling environment is created, it will motivate them to impact on the society that trained them in different ways both home and abroad but injustice and deliberate undermining of the welfare of these youths could lead them to channel their various highly trained professional acumen to violence because not paying students in-training and accommodation stipends or cutting it down just to cover your own failure and ignoring them when they complain will definitely fuel revolution whether silently or openly and same thing goes for those who acquired trade skills including stopping their monthly stipends with nothing to fall back to, definitely they might fall back to something which will create chaos" he noted.