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| Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Hon. Kuku |
Worried by the spate of kidnappings in the Niger Delta region,
officials of the United
States of America’s Department of State
yesterday met with the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and
Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Hon. Kingsley Kuku to find
possible areas of cooperation to check the trend.
The three-man delegation led by Mr. Neal Kringle said the US was ready to
collaborate with the Amnesty Office to make the Niger Delta peaceful, adding;
this was desirable for the much-clamoured rapid development of the region.
Responding, Kuku stated that the current insecurity, especially
the kidnappings had no link with the Amnesty programme, stressing that what was
required was increased security network in the region.
He stated that so far, the Niger Delta region had been calm and
that oil and other business activities had been going on unhindered, resulting
in the increase of crude oil production from a mere 700,000 bpd in 2009 to a
current 2.7 million bpd.
According to him, the main concern of his office remained
the about 30,000 Niger Delta ex-agitators captured in the amnesty programme but
that the various government ministries and agencies had to play their parts in
ensuring an accelerated development of the region.
SOURCE: Thisday
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