Agencies To Fast Track Post Amnesty
Implementation
All
the ministries, departments and agencies involved in the
post-amnesty programme have been asked to fast track its
implementation.
Acting President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday at an emergency
meeting of the Coordinating Committee on the Niger Delta gave
the marching order.
The acting president also directed the Niger Delta Ministry to
fast track all infrastructural development in the Niger Delta
region.
Spokesman for the Acting President, Mr. Ima Niboro said the
directive meant that the concerned agencies and individuals
should immediately set to task and tackle challenges holding up
their duties so that the process could move ahead flawlessly.
Niboro said the meeting was a reaction to concerns in several
quarters that the amnesty process was failing.
He said following the successful disarmament stage of the
amnesty, the second phase of demobilisation has reached
seventy-five per cent completion.
Niboro said that the government had identified the key
challenges of the programme and would overcome them.
NAN/Williams/Yinka
