Youth leaders in the Niger Delta region have backed the ongoing reforms in the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP

The leaders also urged Dikio to keep resisting the pressure to pay desperate and evil contractors for unverified projects.

The leaders in a letter addressed to the PAP Administrator on Tuesday in Port Harcourt by the Coordinator and former Spokesman of Ijaw Youths Council, IYC, Jeremaiah Owoupele, noted that Dikio endeared himself to stakeholders in the Niger Delta when he took time to tour the region and engage critical owners of the programme.

Owoupele said: “Your strength of character really manifested when you remained unyielding when urged to pay contractors who did imaginary jobs and whose stock in trade is to find willing allies in defrauding our people and depriving them the opportunity of getting the benefits of our hard earned struggle.