By JIMITOTA ONOYUME

PORT HARCOURT- FEDERAL Government has been urged to fine tune its post amnesty programme so that it would make lasting impact on the region.

Governor Chibuike  Amaechi,  who made the call when he played host to the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General  Onyeabo  Ihejirika  in Government House, Port Harcourt, said the programme should not be built around only the payment of monthly stipend to former militants.

According to the governor, steps should also be taken to identity what informed the amnesty and tackle them from the root.

Amaechi said solutions to whatever must have led to the amnesty programme did not lie in paying the former militants.

The solution, he argued, lies more in enforcement of law and order and provision of social security, noting that “anybody who breaks the law should be held accountable while government should be ready to make the economy grow to a productive level.

“Where there is production and industrialization, people would get employed and when people get employed, they would leave crime and focus on their work,” the governor stressed.   The governor,  expressed concern that the  former militants were always taking to the streets to molest innocent citizens even when they are being paid, warning that if the situation continued and nothing was done, it could lead to breakdown of law and order.