Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has deployed four cadet pilot trainees for type-rating training at the SIM Aerotraining Ltd in Johannesburg, South Africa, under the implementation of the vocational objectives of the programme.
A statement by Mr Igoniko Oduma, the Special Assistant on Media to the Administrator,
PAP, said it was in pursuit of the PAP objectives to ensure that delegates and beneficiaries acquired requisite skills for gainful employment in the aviation sector.
The statement reads: “This is a continuation of PAP’s deployment of its delegates and beneficiaries to aviation training institutions locally and around the world to enable them to become useful to themselves and the society.
“In September and November 2023, the PAP Office sent 40 trainees (20 each month) for aircraft maintenance engineering at Leadstream Aviation Training, Lagos, who finished their programme and are currently undergoing on-the-job training.
“The PAP Office had also in November 2023 deployed two batches of six cadet pilot trainees each to SIM Aerotraining Ltd and ALT Academy, also in Johannesburg.”
Speaking at the pre-departure briefing in Lagos for the four cadet pilot trainees, the PAP Administrator, Dr Dennis Otuaro, noted that vocational training was a key component of the programme in the planned development of the Niger Delta manpower base.
The statement quoted Otuaro to have noted that the deployment was in continuation of the significant feat achieved by the Presidential Amnesty Office in the aviation training of its delegates and beneficiaries.
Represented by Lambert Daunemighan, PAP’s Head of the Vocational Training Unit, Otuaro thanked President Bola Tinubu for his strong support to the programme to achieve human capital development, peace and security in the region.
