Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has denied owing any of the beneficiaries of its scholarship programme school fees or their allowances.
PAP also distanced itself from claims by one Francis Akpanari, the President of the Ijaw Peoples Association (IPA) in Great Britain and Ireland, that the programme had been defaulting in its financial obligations to some scholarship students.
Special Adviser, Media, to PAP Interim Administrator, Neotaobase Egbe, said in a statement that the programme was not owing any of its scholarship student.
He insisted that PAP was up to date with all payments to the students.
Egbe said it was unfortunate that Akpanari would make a blanket statement without verifying the facts on ground, appealing to members of the public to ignore the association’s leader.
The PAP spokesman explained that since the emergence of Col. Milland Dixon Dikio, as the Interim Administrator, there had not been any complaints from students and their schools about school fees and in-training allowances.
Egbe said PAP challenged anyone with contrary opinion to come forward with facts of bonafide Amnesty students owed by the Office.
He said, “The PAP unequivocally states that the school fees and in-training allowances of all bonafide beneficiaries of the PAP scholarship scheme are up to March 2022.
“No student on our scholarship scheme is being owed neither is there any institution that is owed. Those with contrary opinion are challenged to provide the names of the students and schools owed.
“The management of the PAP, under the leadership of the Interim Administrator, Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd) is focused and committed to its beneficiaries.”