Jonathan Urged To Implement Niger Delta Amnesty

PHOTO: NIGERIAN ACTING PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN. IMAGE: REUTERS.

PORT HARCOURT March 30, (THEWILL) - As prominent Nigerians continue to call on the Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to give priority towards proffering lasting solutions to the problems facing the long troubled Niger Delta area, the Oba of Ogbaland and immediate past Chairman, Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers Chukumela Nnam-Obi II, has called on him to implement without delay, the amnesty offer granted Niger-Delta ex-militants as a necessary basis towards bringing final peace to the region.

He said the nation, stakeholders and those involved in the amnesty programme were eagerly awaiting government’s further input in the scheme because the continued and proper implementation of the exercise was important to the region, nation and world at large.

Nnam-Obi also appealed to Jonathan to muster every effort and search for a final solution to the recurring crisis in Jos, which had claimed several, lives and become a national embarrassment.

On the state of the nation, the monarch wants Jonathan to "vehemently resist intimidation and distraction by enemies of good governance and be bold and firm as he commences the fast-tracking of the nation’s development, which had been stagnated recently."

Jonathan has repeatedly said he would follow through with the amnesty programme of the federal government, which was initiated by President Musa Yar’Adua before he became ill.