22 Ex-militants Return With Qualifying Licenses As Aircraft Engineers

A total of 22 ex-militants who were sponsored overseas for foreign vocational training under the Presidential Amnesty Programme had graduated and qualified as Aircraft Maintenance Engineers and returned to the country.

The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta who doubles as Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh, disclosed this during a media interaction with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja stating that the beneficiaries were trained at the Royal Jordanian Air Academy and were equipped with EASA License on return which will enable them to operate in full scale.....

“Worldwide aircraft maintenance business is enormous, and expanding with the passage of time. Approximately 500, 000 passenger and cargo aircrafts are currently in service worldwide.

“Moreover, about four million smaller private aircrafts are being used for business or pleasure. Thus, aviation is an ever-expanding field with modernization of equipment on new aircraft.

“Therefore, the requirements of aircraft engineers and aircraft mechanics to work on a permanent basis as an employee of an airline will always rise with ever increasing expansion of aviation industry”, Boroh told NAN.