Amnesty Programme and Youths’ Empowerment in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria: A Critical Appraisal
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 5
Abstract
This study is on Amnesty programme and Youths’ empowerment in the Niger Delta region of Niger. The federal Government of Nigeria had introduced this Amnesty programme to curb youths’ restiveness which had prevailed in the Niger Delta region before the late President Yar’Adua’s administration. An important part of this Amnesty programme is youth empowerment. The extent to which this Amnesty programme has empowered the youths of this region constitute the broad objective of this study. Specifically, the research sets out to determine whether the Amnesty programme has been effective in training and creating jobs for the youths of the Niger Delta region. The study relied on Marxian Political economy approach as a theoretical framework. Using qualitative method anchored on secondary means of data collection. The study reveals that though a lot of youths from the Niger Delta region has benefited from the training programmes packaged by the Amnesty office, the modality of selection and placement is still marred with controversy. Further, a lot more of the youths of the region especially the non-militant youths are completely left out of the scheme. This sends a wrong signal to the up-coming youths across the country. It is therefore recommended that government need to deepen the programme to accommodate the non-militant youths of the region, ensure transparency and fairness in the process of enlistment and placement and systematically address the salient issues that necessitated the breach of peace that was witnessed in the region.
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Amnesty Programme, Youths .
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