He was appointed the interim Administrator of Presidential Amnesty Programme late last year, September 24 2022 to be precise.
And like a soldier, which he was, he hit the ground running like the Americans will say.
Determined to carry out the assignment given to him by the Commander In-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, to the fullest, one of the first things he did was a tour of the offices of the intervention agency and an interface with staff members where he told them that his tenure will not be business as usual and that some internal appointments and deployments, which will certainly not go down well with some of them will be made.
That said, he set out on a mission of verification of the true numbers of ex-agitators who are are on the agency’s pay roll.
That done, he discovered that the ghost ex-agitors who had been feeding fat on PAP by drawing stipends when they ought not to. And to put a stop to the evil practice that had been going on since God knows when, he order for the verification of the true status of the ex-agitators on PAP’s pay sheet.
Just as he was rounding off on that, a N7billion bill was brought to his table as the humongous outstanding bill the agency is indebted to universities, home and abroad, where the benefiteries of its scholarship programme are studying for just 2021/22 academic session. Alarmed by the news, he ordered for the suspension of the scheme and also set up a panel to look into the authenticity of the bill; as usual the people behind the fraud in the system, went to town, with the story that he has stopped the programme and at the end of the day Baze university which had earlier barred PAP students in its school from taking seminal exams had a rethink.
Not to be deterred by such unfounded news, he began a tour of sister agencies like the Nigeria Police, customs and others and extracted a commitment from them to henceforth, employ ex-agitors who are competent and qualifed in their establishments
Ndiomu has within the space of four months worked so hard to establish a smooth working relationship with the ex-agitors who had been wrongly fed with the news that he is out to stop their monthly stipend that those of them that had earlier taken to the street in protest against him, dropped their placards and went on their kneels when they discovered that he meant well.
He has shown that he meant business and that by the time his tenure is over, history will remember him as a man who came, saw and succeeded.
