Activist urges revival of looted PAP vocational centre

A human and environmental rights activist, Alagoa Morris, has called on the Presidential Amnesty Programme to revisit the PAP Vocational Centre at Boro Town, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

The PAP training centre was looted and vandalised in 2019, and starter packs for graduates of the amnesty programmes and training equipment were stolen by youth leaders, community folks and security operatives among others.

The facility has since been abandoned and overgrown with weeds, but Morris, who is also the Deputy Executive Director of the Environmental Defenders Network, said it should not be allowed to go to waste, especially as huge sums of money had been committed to its development.

Morris, who made the call on Monday when a youth group, Coalition of Clan Vice Chairmen, IYC, visited him in his office in Yenagoa, said, “You don’t abandon your car when it is bad, you take it to the mechanic to fix it.”