THE
Federal Government on Monday dispatched another batch of 164 ex-Niger
Delta militants to South Africa and Belarus for university education,
the Amnesty Office said on Monday.
They will undergo training at the Belarusian State
University and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in electrical
engineering, computer engineering, petro-chemical engineering and radio
informatics.
Other areas of study are mass communication, biological sciences, physics, chemistry and mathematics.
The Amnesty Office, in a statement, said of the 164
ex-militants, 47 would undergo one-year vocational training in marine
mechanics and boat building in Italy.
At the pre-departure ceremony in Lagos, Presidential
Adviser on Niger Delta matters, Kingsley Kuku, said 12,000 ex-militants
would attend local and overseas training programmes this year.
In the statement, Kuku explained that the ex-militants going to Italy would be the first set to be sent to Western Europe.
He also handed over to the 164 ex-militants laptops designed to meet their training needs.
He said the lingering agitation of some youths in
Niger Delta to be included in the amnesty programme had become apparent
because of the poverty in the country.
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