{"id":5379,"date":"2015-07-29T08:32:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T08:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2015-07-29T08:32:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T08:32:10","slug":"boroh-is-new-amnesty-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5379","title":{"rendered":"Boroh is new Amnesty Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Federal Government has appointed Brigadier-General Paul.T. Boroh (rtd.) as coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP).<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, last night said the appointment, which took immediate effect, was to alleviate the problems of former Niger Delta militants.<\/p>\n<p>Boroh, a former <span class=\"st\">Commandant of the Nigerian Army Peacekeeping Centre,<\/span> who is from Bayelsa state will &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Paul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5380\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Paul.jpg\" alt=\"Paul\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Paul.jpg 225w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Paul-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Paul-80x80.jpg 80w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Paul-40x40.jpg 40w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Paul-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Paul-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>take over the responsibilities of Kingsley Kuku, the former Special Adviser to President Jonathan on Niger Delta, who also doubled as coordinator of the Amnesty Programme,\u201d said Adesina.<\/p>\n<p>The emergence of the new coordinator for the scheme is expected to speedily resolve recent hitches in its implementation, including non-payment of outstanding allowances to ex-militants.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came barely two months of administrative lull that followed the expiration of Jonathan\u2019s administration and Kuku\u2019s subsequent \u2018resignation.\u2019 The events led to delay in payment of monthly stipends to ex-militants and caused cessation of their trainee programmes abroad.<\/p>\n<p>President of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), Mr. Udengs Eradiri, through a short message service (SMS) last night, commended the Federal Government and urged the new coordinator to hit the ground running. \u201cIjaw Youth Council commend President Buhari for appointing Rtd Brigadier General P.T Boroh as coordinator of the Amnesty Programme; urges him to hit the ground running and pledges to work with him for the smooth running of the programme,\u201d Eradiri said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Federal Government has appointed Brigadier-General Paul.T. Boroh (rtd.) as coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). A statement signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, last night said the appointment, which took immediate effect, was to alleviate the problems of former Niger Delta militants. Boroh, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[304,295,305,306],"class_list":["post-5379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-brigadier-general-paul-t-boroh","tag-ijaw-youths-council","tag-kingsley-kuku","tag-presidential-amnesty-programme-pap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Paul.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1oL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5381,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions\/5381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}