Be grateful to PAP for your Doctorate Degree, other achievements, group tells ex-agitator, Tam Odogwu

… says sponsored media publications by Odogwu, others intended to tarnish Ndiomu’s image

The Niger Delta Integrity Group (NDIG) has described an ex-agitator, Dr. Tam Odogwu of being ungrateful to the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), despite all he has benefited from the programme.

The group said Odogwu, a member of the third phase of the PAP has been one of those behind the smear campaign against the leadership of the amnesty programme.

In a statement signed by Dr. Boma Horsfall,
Convener of the NDIG, it said Tam Odogwu bagged a Doctorate degree (P.hD) in Public Administration from Igbinedion University, Okada in Edo State in 2022 courtesy of the amnesty programme.

The statement said despite the academic achievement which was widely celebrated by the PAP, Odogwu has displayed a high level of ingratitude by sustaining an unwarranted media attack against the leadership of the amnesty programme.

According to the group, if Odogwu had any modicum of shame, he should have exited the amnesty programme and go in search of a more sustainable income rather than insisting on the monthly N65,000 stipend.

The statement noted that Odogwu who was one of those allegedly involved in the BVN scam discovered recently in the PAP, has been leading other renegades to incite and cause confusion in the Niger Delta.

The statement read: “Our attention has been drawn to series of media publications co-signed by one over bearing Dr. Tam Odogwu, P.hD, who claims to be a “critical stakeholder” of Phase 3 of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP).

“Issues raised in the said publications are ludicrous and gibberish. The authors are only on a sponsored voyage to tarnish the image of the PAP Interim Administrator, Major General Barry Ndiomu (retd).

On several occasions, the leadership of the PAP has explained satisfactorily while it embarked on the cleansing of the payroll data for ex-agitators, which is part of the massive reforms undertaken to sanitize the system and make it work for all genuine delegates and beneficiaries of the scheme.

“We therefore wonder why the likes of Odogwu will continue in their campaign of calumny and slander. From their actions it has become obvious their level of involvement in the alleged organized crime of multiple accounts scam.

“But what beats our imagination is how ungrateful Odogwu in particular is. By every reason, Tam Odogwu is meant to have exited the PAP having benefitted immensley from it in achieving his dream and desire of obtaining a Doctorate Degree with other trainings and certifications.

“Odogwu, should be grateful to the PAP for sponsoring him to finish his doctoral academic pursuit which was fully realized late last year at the Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State.

“Still insisting on N65,000 monthly stipend rather than putting his doctorate degree to good use and make a sustainable livelihood easily define his short-sighted character and personality.

“We call on the leadership of the PAP to take urgent action against Odogwu by ensuring that he is not only completely delisted from its payroll but handed over to security agencies for acts of civil disturbance and disobidence. Enough is enough”!