BEVERLY HILLS, AUGUST 2, (THEWILL) – Three repentant militants on the Nigerian government scholarship scheme to study abroad under the Niger Delta Amnesty programme have graduated with First Class honours in UK universities while eighteen others finished with Second Class Upper (2:1).
According to the Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty Programme, Paul Boroh, Nicholas Goodness and Terubein Fawei graduated from the University of Bedfordshire with first class honours in public relations, telecommunication and networking engineering respectively.
In the same vein, Lucky Azibanagein also graduated with first class honours in mechanical engineering and Robotic system from the University of Liverpool.
Celebrating the feat in an event organised by the Nigerian High Commission in the UK, Boroh congratulated the graduates for making Nigeria proud and restated President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment towards ensuring that the amnesty programme is sustained to achieve the desired goals.
“President Buhari is ever ready to implement the blueprint upon which the amnesty programme was established. The era of impunity and phoney contracts are gone for good,” Boroh said.
“Let me also call on other militants such as the Niger Delta Avengers to emulate the militants who laid down their arms to embrace education that can make them indispensable to the world.”
Apart from the three that finished with First Class, 18 other ex-militants, also studying in UK universities under different disciplines, graduated with second class upper division.
Story by David Oputah
