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.
He therefore called on state and local governments to
design empowerment programmes for their indigenes to bridge the gap in
youth unemployment in the country.
Kuku said, “What the youth need is not strictly
amnesty but a means of engaging themselves. If their respective state
and local governments can provide them with empowerment and employment,
it will be good and help solve the problem of youth agitation in the
country.
“The government is sending the ex-militants out for
offshore training in order to get them away from their comfort zone and
prevent them from returning to arms confrontation.”
He warned the government would not hesitate to recall
ex-militants who failed to conduct themselves in proper manner in their
host countries.
Kuku however appealed to the those going to Europe to conduct
themselves properly to enable their colleagues to get entry visas when
it is their turn.
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