Foremost Ijaw Youth Organization, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) have called on the newly appointed Coordinator of the Presidential amnesty programme for Ex-Niger Delta Agitators, General Paul Boroh (rtd) to take drastic action in addressing the deplorable condition of foreign students who are beneficiaries of the Federal Government amnesty programme.
IYC said that its leadership, parents and other leaders in the Niger Delta region are still under intense pressure from the foreign students under the amnesty programme to intervene over their deplorable plight.
In a statement by its spokesman, Barr. Eric Omare, IYC expressed displeasure over the inability of Boroh to address the plight of the students two weeks after he assumed leadership of Amnesty Programme.
The group however urged Boroh to expedite actions in the ongoing verification exercise at the Amnesty office just as they urged him to immediately reach out to the institutions where these students are studying to assure them of the federal government’s commitment to pay the outstanding tuition fees of the students.
The statement said: "The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) frowned at the slow response of the newly appointed Coordinator of the Presidential amnesty programme for Ex-Niger Delta Agitators, General Paul Boroh to the deplorable condition of beneficiaries of the amnesty programme in foreign institutions two weeks after assumption of office.
"The IYC had expected that upon assumption of office, General Boroh would take urgent and drastic steps to address the condition of students in foreign institutions who are subjected to untold hardship and harassment from the institutions and countries where they are studying.
"However, we are amazed to note that two weeks after resumption of office, nothing has been done to address the situation of foreign students.
"The IYC leadership, parents and other leaders in the Niger Delta region are still under intense pressure from the foreign students under the amnesty programme.
"We strongly believe that irrespective of the verification exercise going on in the amnesty office, something urgent ought to have been done to address the plight of the foreign students. In our view, the foreign students are much easier to verify through the respective institutions where they are studying.
"While the IYC note some of the steps taken so far by the amnesty office, we call on General Boroh to quickly settle down to work and sort out the case of foreign beneficiaries who are facing untold hardship especially their tuition fees and allowances.
"We also call on him to immediately reach out to the institutions where these students are studying to assure them of the federal government’s commitment to pay the outstanding tuition fees of the students".
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