{"id":71561,"date":"2013-04-29T01:26:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T01:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/04\/jonathan-endorses-n-delta-trust-fund\/"},"modified":"2013-04-29T01:26:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T01:26:46","slug":"jonathan-endorses-n-delta-trust-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/04\/29\/jonathan-endorses-n-delta-trust-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan endorses N-Delta Trust Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"74.8670625857\">\n<p>By Chris Ochayi<\/p>\n<p>UYO \u2014 President Goodluck Jonathan,\u00a0 has endorsed the establishment of a Multi-Stakeholder Trust Fund, MSTF, to\u00a0 fast track the development of the Niger Delta region.<\/p>\n<p>President Jonathan, while inaugurating the 40-member National Council on Niger Delta, weekend, in\u00a0 Uyo, Akwa Ibom State,\u00a0 said the process will create development partners to ensure the transformation of the region.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed MSTF is expected to solve the decades of funding problems faced in the process of developing the region.<\/p>\n<p>Under the arrangement, as contained in the Niger Delta Action Plan, developed by the Ministry, MSTF will mobilise an additional $200 million, about N3.2 billion,\u00a0 as the first tranche of fund.<\/p>\n<p>President Jonathan,\u00a0 represented by his Vice, Mr Namadi Sambo, said the government was committed to pushing forward a new dawn for\u00a0 development in the region.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThis mechanism will assist the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs to more effectively coordinate development resources from different stakeholders to achieve the intended objectives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s event marks one in the series of efforts by the Federal Government to consolidate and reaffirm all commitments to the people of the Niger Delta, made within the framework of the amnesty programme in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must now capitalise on the prevailing peace framework in the region to push forward a new dawn in the region. When we work together, we are better able to unleash our creative potentials in optimising our huge human and natural resources for the stability and prosperity of the Niger Delta, and the good and progress of our people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe consider it a priority to sustain the consolidation of the current security situation in order to deepen the very foundations of durable and mutually beneficial peace.\u00a0 This is achievable if we forthrightly, and with articulation, address the development challenges and neglect of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Chris Ochayi UYO \u2014 President Goodluck Jonathan,\u00a0 has endorsed the establishment of a Multi-Stakeholder Trust Fund, MSTF, to\u00a0 fast track the development of the Niger Delta region. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}