Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) got a new boss yesterday. He is Maj.-Gen. Barry Ndiomu.

Gen. Ndiomu’s appointment as replacement for Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd) as the Interim Administrator of the Amnesty Office has been approved by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Confirming the change of guard, a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, reads: “President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Maj.-Gen. Barry Tariye Ndiomu as Interim Administrator of the Amnesty Programme.

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“The appointee, who hails from Odoni in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State was admitted to the Nigerian Defence Academy as part of 29th Regular Combatant Course. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in 1983.

He held several command and staff appointments in the course of his successful military career and retired in December 2017.

“Gen. Ndiomu also trained as a lawyer, and is an alumnus of National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Administrative Staff College of Nigeria, Badagry, Harvard Kennedy School, and George C Marshall Centre for European Security Studies, among others.”