Angry parents and guardians of 43 scholarship students under the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) on Friday cried out over what they termed abandonment of their children in the United States by the Amnesty Office.
The parents appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to wade into the situation and save their children’s education.
The parents, who poured their hearts out through a statement signed on their behalf in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, by Kingsley Feboke, Ayente Douglas and Victoria Feboke, disclosed that their children were on the verge of being evicted from their various schools.
They further hinted that the students were enrolled in American universities through the PAP’s Special Scholarship for Crisis Impacted Communities (SSCIC).
They noted that the programme was initiated by immediate past government of Goodluck Jonathan to absorb youths from crisis-impacted areas in the Niger Delta region into the amnesty programme.
The aggrieved parents explained that the programme was running smoothly before a disagreement occurred between the authorities in the Amnesty Office and Kaplan Consultants.
The parents said, “We are constrained to raise the alarm because our children have been abandoned in the United States and are being treated as Prisoners of War.
“These children are between the ages of 16 and 17. We got report that the Amnesty Office is considering revoking the contract with Kaplan (the consultants).
“We understand that Kaplan has a valid and subsisting contract with the Amnesty Office where students are enrolled in higher institutions in the United States after undergoing a globally recognised educational foundation training otherwise called Pathway Programme.”
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