In His BOOK... PEACE IN THE NIGER DELTA: HOW JONATHAN GOT IT RIGHT

KINGSLEY KEMEBRADIGHA KUKU "K3" as he is fondly called by close
Associates, #RemakingTheNigerDelta

"THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE"




When in January 2011 President Goodluck Jonathan announced the appointment of Kingsley Kuku as his Special Adviser on Niger Delta, not a few knew that the President had delivered a Master-Stroke in dealing with the agitations in the Niger Delta.

Kingsley Kuku, a former Emeritus Spokesman of the leading agitating group in the Niger Delta, is an indigene of Arogbo in Ondo State, a former member of the Ondo State House of Assembly, a former secretary of the Yar’Adua Presidential Committee on Peace and Reconciliation in the Niger Delta clearly came into office with a pedigree. There are others who will also add attitude.

Kingsley Kuku knows every active player in the Niger Delta struggle or agitation on first name basis and was one of those who built the framework on which the Kaiama Declaration, the document that spells out the roadmap for the liberation and emancipation of the Ijaw and Niger Delta territory.

In appointing Kingsley Kuku as his Special Adviser on Niger Delta affairs, President Goodluck Jonathan had played a fast one on agitators in the Niger Delta.

The fact is Kingsley Kuku is very accessible. Another value is his humility has won the hearts of many people from the Niger Delta. Most importantly, his commitment to ensure that President Jonathan gets it right in the Niger Delta is very commendable.

Leveraging the quiet support provided by the National Security Adviser (NSA) General Andrew Owoye Azazi, Kuku continues to get it right in dealing with the agitations of restless young men in the Niger Delta who demand that it is not yet Uhuru.

There are many who agree that if President Jonathan had appointed a wrong person into that office, the peace we see in the Niger Delta would not be there now.

Flow-stations and critical oil and gas infrastructures would still be under attack and Nigeria would remain on it pre-amnesty oil production rate of seven hundred thousand barrels per day (700,000 bpd) as against today’s production rate of about two million five hundred thousand barrels per day (2,500,000 bpd) which has made Nigeria to be the second highest OPEC producing country in the world way up from its pre-amnesty position of seventh!

There is something about putting the RIGHT People in the RIGHT Place. People who are accessible to their people and can listen to their people. People who can help their people solve their many problems and then work with them to meet the challenges of everyday life.

People who see public service as an opportunity for selfless service for the communal development should be sought for and delivered to Nigerians at all levels.



If You Like call It KINGSLEY, PRESIDENTIAL AMNESTY IS WORKING!



-@MOAgbajoh