The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Col. Miland Dixon Dikio (rtd) on Monday insisted that food security remains one of the tripods of his administration maintaining that that has been the reason for his vision to train, employ and mentor ex-warlords on massive opportunities in agriculture including cassava farming and starch processing.
Speaking in Port Harcourt, Rivers State against the backdrop of training about 1000 ex militants on starch processing in facility owned by Bayelsans State Government, Dikio explained that PAP settled for the cassava processing factory to train ex-agitators on skills they require to boost food security in the Niger Delta and the country.
He said the factory has modern equipment to teach the amnesty delegates the process of converting cassava to starch adding that “The 60 metric tons of cassava processing plant has a huge capacity and it is part of the facility that we will use for our train, employ and mentor (TEM) empowerment strategy.