The Niger Delta Restoration Network (NDRN) has congratulated Alfred Kemepade, over his appointment as Head of Reintegration for the Presidential amnesty Program, PAP.
The group in a statement by it’s Founder, Comrade Endoro Oweikeye over the weekend, charged the former National Secretary of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Worldwide to be a true representative of youthfulness in the intervention agency.
While exercising confidence on the impeccable antecedent of the Head of Reintegration, Oweikeye tasked Kemepade to live up to expectations with regards to the responsibilities that come with new office.
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The former Delta State House of Assembly candidate emphatically called to mind that the Amnesty Programme has come under scrutiny in recent times over discrepancies, particularly with leadership, tasking the new HoR to be a new face of the Programme.
“Your announcement as Head of Reintegration for the Amnesty Programme is only a testifier of your impeccable antecedent as a visionary and responsible youth.
“While I am quite confident of your capabilities to discharge your duties in a result oriented manner, I want you to remember that the Programme has been faced with enormous challenges in recent years. Challenges you are not alien to.
“Still, I am filled with hope and convictions that the Presidential Amnesty Programme will breathe a fresh air towards fulfilling it’s mandate as an intervention agency in the Niger Delta, with you as it’s new face.
The Niger Delta Reformation Network, further tasked the new HoR “to stay focused in reintegrating all ex-militants into society” as the need for a renewal of youthful minds in the region is ‘imminent.’
The Niger Delta Restoration Network is a group with the mandate to restore the values of Ijaws in the Niger Delta, to develop an enduring system to propagate human capital development, environmental restoration and Socio-economic development to drive home the deserving development of Ijaw communities.
The group was founded by Comr Endoro Oweikeye Path, a lecturer in the department of Meteorology and Climate Change, Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko.