The last batch of 20 Aircraft Maintenance Engineers under the Presidential Amnesty Programme PAP, Aviation Resuscitation Programme have graduated from the Leadstream Aviation Academy in Lagos.
Mr Feston Akpor, the Special Assistant, Media, to the PAP Interim Administrator, General Barry Ndiomu, rtd, said 20 of the trainees were among the 40 aircraft maintenance engineers that participated in the programme.
He said; “They are part of the 75-lot comprising 35 cadet pilots and 40 aircraft maintenance engineers under the presidential Amnesty Programme Aviation Resuscitation Programme,” adding that all the 40 engineers shortlisted would be rated on select aircraft engine types.
He added that their on-the-job programme, OJT, would run for 12 months of which their living expenses for the OJT period had been fully covered in advance by the PAP.
Quoting Ndiomu, Akpor said the six cadet pilots out of the 12 deployed in October 2023 to various aviation training organisations in Johannesburg in South Africa would return to Nigeria this week having successfully completed their type training programmes NAN
