Amgbare Ekaunkumo, Yenagoa
The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has called on the Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (retd) to use his reappointment to sustain his reforms in PAP.
While commending President Muhammadu Buhari for renewing the appointment of Dikio, PANDEF appealed to the President to make Dikio a substantive administrator of the programme following his excellent performance in the last one year.
The forum’s Chairman, Emmanuel Essien, in a statement at the weekend said making Dikio the substantive head would be a treasured gift to people of the region.
Essien reminded Dikio that the president’s benevolence was a reward for a job well done in the last one year.
He advised the amnesty boss to justify the presidential gesture by working hard to surpass his previous achievements, stressing that expectations were high and he could not afford to fail.
He said: “Our expectation in this coming year is that Dikio will continue the sanitization of the Amnesty programme and ensure that he returns the programme to its core mandate. We hope to see that these mandates are achieved in this administration.
“Dikio is a man of foresight and vision so we at PANDEF believe he will deliver on these expectations.
“While we appplaud the President for reappointing Dikio, we appeal that he makes him the substantive Administrator because so far, he has performed so well in the capacity given to him. This is our only concern”.
