An Ijaw group, the Western Ijaw Consultative Assembly, has maintained that it is the turn of the Ijaws to produce the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The group, in a Press Statement, accused the Omo agege of denying the Ijaws their right to produce the next NDDC MD.

According to the group, the NDDC Act 2000 section 12 (1) recognizes the rotational formula for appointments into the NDDC board. It said despite the ACT’s provision, the Urhobos and some politicians it described as selfish, have continued to flout this provision.

It said the NDDC Acts provides that, “There shall be for the commission, a Managing Director, and two Executive Directors who shall be indigenes of Oil Producing Areas starting with member states of the Commission with the highest production quantum of oil and shall rotate among member states in order of production”.

The group said the next NDDC MD is “the rightful turn of the Ijaws and not the Urhobos, because the Ijaws are the highest producers of oil in Delta State.” Similarly, the group took a swipe at the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, over what it described as being “anti-Ijaw and does not want our development and progress.” IT said, “We are fully aware of over-zealous politicians working assiduously to maliciously push the Ijaws out of the political power play in Nigeria; we must come out to fight them with everything in us. Politicians like Ovie Omo-Agege and his cohorts have taken liberty of their position in the Federal Government to oppress us.

He has shown that he is anti-Ijaw and does not want our development and progress.” The group said it would not allow the deputy senate president nor any other politician to scuttle the opportunity of the Ijaws to produce the next NDDC MD. According to the group in a statement, “The injustice, marginalization and oppression meted on the Ijaws have been too loud and painful. The most recent of this pains, is the deliberate exclusion of Ijaws from appointments and opportunities due us. We have been silent for a long time, but the recent provocative nomination of another Urhobo national as the Managing Director of the NDDC instead of an Ijaw person is the height of oppression. It is obvious that our silence and humility has been taken for stupidity. Delta’ll collaborate with security agencies, others to stop oil bunkering ― Otuaro(Opens in a new browser tab) “The NDDC was established to cater for the oil bearing/impacted communities of the Niger-Delta and appointments to the board is done rotationally to foster fairness, peace and harmony amongst the various nationalities of the region.


From inception, the office of the Managing Director of the NDDC has been occupied twice by the Urhobos, an Urhobo man has also occupied the office of the Executive Director, whereas no Delta Ijaw person has ever been considered for the position of the Managing Director. “Now, time and principle enshrined in the NDDC Establishment Act has offered the good people of Delta State the opportunity to produce at least another Managing Director. This rare opportunity offers any good leader with a sense of history to correct the ethnic bias inherent in the previous Board appointments.

“However, the very unique opportunity has been snatched by people parading themselves as close allies to the Federal Powers, to further their ungodly anti-Ijaw, anti-progress ploy for the sake of satisfying narrow, parochial ethnic agenda by the nomination of another Urhobo National for the third time to occupy the position of the Managing Director of the NDDC. “This is not fair to the Ijaws that produce the bulk of the Oil and Gas in Delta State; neither does it engender inter-ethnic peace and harmony. How long are we going to allow this wickedness, oppression and marginalization to continue? Ohanaeze Youth denies receiving Ekweremadu at airport (Opens in a new browser tab) “For the Urhobos to produce the Managing Director again for the third time is an anathema to equity, fairness and justice.

This is a slap and broad-day robbery on the Ijaws who contributed so much with blood of Ijaw youths for the creation of the NDDC. How do you explain the gross injustice of having one Urhobo man leaving the last board and another Urhobo man coming in to replace him? Where does that leave the Ijaws that currently generates “the highest production quantum of oil” in the scheme of things in Delta State?” The group who said that its members “are also calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to correct this injustice as a matter of urgency, however petitioned the president, senate, oil bodies and several other human right and international bodies to wade into the matter.

https://ourdailywire.com/ijaw-group-take-swipe-at-senator-ovieomoagege-over-position-of-next-nddc-md/

To be honest ijaw people complain too
Much, if an ijaw man from Bayelsa occupies that same post, those from delta will still complain. But I do understand their point of argument about the rotation thing. The itshekiri or isoko should be the ones complaining as ijaw have Vice President and a senator.

A simple question to Ijaw people; What did an Ijaw President did for their community that they are protesting against a Board appointment?

Ijaw Group : Dem don come again.

Now, they are not even talking that a Northerner, Westerner or Easterner was appointed, but now they are fighting their own brothers from the same state!

They are about to start killing themselves that why was an Urhobo appointed and not an Ijaw man?!
People from the same state!

And these are the same people complaining about Xenophobia!
What a Shame!
This is the same country that we have some people calling their fellow brothers and sisters OSU outcast!
May God save us in this nation.

MisterChairman:
this is the reason Nigeria will never move forward .. every tribe and ethnicity must cry marginalization

It is a shame!

Q

Ijaws and self-centeredness

Remove religious bigotry out of Nigeria's problem, we still have Tribalism.
It is well

These ijaws are too myopic and self centred for my liking

But on a more serious note...you won't see these people when it is time to complain about good governance, lack of economic productivity, education, etc...

Na gofment post they dem fight for.

Same thing for other tribes in this country...Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo, etc....we all know how to fight for MD and Director position. Yet, how many jobs can Director give. ?

The Director can only employ X no of people. And most of those people have to have a degree...meaning if you have anything else, you are unlucky.

Anyway, the trobule with Nigeria is Nigerians...dem too wan chop.

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post=82414284:
......says a Political Winch! Gerrarhahere mehn!

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post=82414284:
......says a Political Winch! Gerrarhahere mehn!

My moniker, my business....

At any rate...the rules say that someone from the area has to be appointed. Now, I don';t like that law..(see my second post above)...but it is a rule.

PoliticalWitch:


My moniker, my business....

At any rate...the rules say that someone from the area has to be appointed. Now, I don';t like that law..(see my second post above)...but it is a rule.

Okay, do have a nice night Political witch!
Happy Coven dream!

this is the reason Nigeria will never move forward .. every tribe and ethnicity must cry marginalization

Redbarry:
These ijaws are too myopic and self centred for my liking

Profiling and hasty generalisation could be dangerous. Thought we've outgrown that.

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Ijaw Group : Dem don come again.

Now, they are not even talking that a Northerner, Westerner or Easterner was appointed, but now they are fighting their own brothers from the same state!

They are about to start killing themselves that why was an Urhobo appointed and not an Ijaw man?!
People from the same state!

And these are the same people complaining about Xenophobia!
What a Shame!
This is the same country that we have some people calling their fellow brothers and sisters OSU outcast!
May God save us in this nation.



It is a shame!

Na today

johnmattew:
they didn't 'did' anything


seriously,ijaw people entitlement mentality is getting out of hand....they are the laziest set of Nigerians

Strong man�

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Okay, do have a nice night Political witch!
Happy Coven dream!

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must we turn everything to politics and zoning in this country?

Now the tide is against d Ijaw how are they feeling oppressed. when Goodluck was President same period Timi Alabe an Ijaw from Bayelsa, was MD NDDC Godsday Orubebe an Ijaw from Delta was Minister no Urhobo national was seen anywhere. When Niger Delta will be mention Ijaw will come out, little boys were been tag Militant paying them 65k every month, lodging them in luxury hotel across the country, they occupy NIMASA, and every work slot that is available at that time they marginalized every nationality in Niger Delta . Let them see how it feel to be Marginalized.

OEPHIUS:
An Ijaw group, the Western Ijaw Consultative Assembly, has maintained that it is the turn of the Ijaws to produce the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The group, in a Press Statement, accused the Omo agege of denying the Ijaws their right to produce the next NDDC MD.

According to the group, the NDDC Act 2000 section 12 (1) recognizes the rotational formula for appointments into the NDDC board. It said despite the ACT’s provision, the Urhobos and some politicians it described as selfish, have continued to flout this provision.

It said the NDDC Acts provides that, “There shall be for the commission, a Managing Director, and two Executive Directors who shall be indigenes of Oil Producing Areas starting with member states of the Commission with the highest production quantum of oil and shall rotate among member states in order of production”.

The group said the next NDDC MD is “the rightful turn of the Ijaws and not the Urhobos, because the Ijaws are the highest producers of oil in Delta State.” Similarly, the group took a swipe at the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, over what it described as being “anti-Ijaw and does not want our development and progress.” IT said, “We are fully aware of over-zealous politicians working assiduously to maliciously push the Ijaws out of the political power play in Nigeria; we must come out to fight them with everything in us. Politicians like Ovie Omo-Agege and his cohorts have taken liberty of their position in the Federal Government to oppress us.

He has shown that he is anti-Ijaw and does not want our development and progress.” The group said it would not allow the deputy senate president nor any other politician to scuttle the opportunity of the Ijaws to produce the next NDDC MD. According to the group in a statement, “The injustice, marginalization and oppression meted on the Ijaws have been too loud and painful. The most recent of this pains, is the deliberate exclusion of Ijaws from appointments and opportunities due us. We have been silent for a long time, but the recent provocative nomination of another Urhobo national as the Managing Director of the NDDC instead of an Ijaw person is the height of oppression. It is obvious that our silence and humility has been taken for stupidity. Delta’ll collaborate with security agencies, others to stop oil bunkering ― Otuaro(Opens in a new browser tab) “The NDDC was established to cater for the oil bearing/impacted communities of the Niger-Delta and appointments to the board is done rotationally to foster fairness, peace and harmony amongst the various nationalities of the region.


From inception, the office of the Managing Director of the NDDC has been occupied twice by the Urhobos, an Urhobo man has also occupied the office of the Executive Director, whereas no Delta Ijaw person has ever been considered for the position of the Managing Director. “Now, time and principle enshrined in the NDDC Establishment Act has offered the good people of Delta State the opportunity to produce at least another Managing Director. This rare opportunity offers any good leader with a sense of history to correct the ethnic bias inherent in the previous Board appointments.

“However, the very unique opportunity has been snatched by people parading themselves as close allies to the Federal Powers, to further their ungodly anti-Ijaw, anti-progress ploy for the sake of satisfying narrow, parochial ethnic agenda by the nomination of another Urhobo National for the third time to occupy the position of the Managing Director of the NDDC. “This is not fair to the Ijaws that produce the bulk of the Oil and Gas in Delta State; neither does it engender inter-ethnic peace and harmony. How long are we going to allow this wickedness, oppression and marginalization to continue? Ohanaeze Youth denies receiving Ekweremadu at airport (Opens in a new browser tab) “For the Urhobos to produce the Managing Director again for the third time is an anathema to equity, fairness and justice.

This is a slap and broad-day robbery on the Ijaws who contributed so much with blood of Ijaw youths for the creation of the NDDC. How do you explain the gross injustice of having one Urhobo man leaving the last board and another Urhobo man coming in to replace him? Where does that leave the Ijaws that currently generates “the highest production quantum of oil” in the scheme of things in Delta State?” The group who said that its members “are also calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to correct this injustice as a matter of urgency, however petitioned the president, senate, oil bodies and several other human right and international bodies to wade into the matter.

https://ourdailywire.com/ijaw-group-take-swipe-at-senator-ovieomoagege-over-position-of-next-nddc-md/

Now the tide is against d Ijaw how are they feeling oppressed. when Goodluck was President same period Timi Alabe an Ijaw from Bayelsa, was MD NDDC Godsday Orubebe an Ijaw from Delta was Minister no Urhobo national was seen anywhere. When Niger Delta will be mention Ijaw will come out, little boys were been tag Militant paying them 65k every month, lodging them in luxury hotel across the country, they occupy NIMASA, and every work slot that is available at that time they marginalized every nationality in Niger Delta . Let them see how it feel to be Marginalized.

As an urhobo,i'm so happy this is happening to the ijaws...what happened to their amnesty...omo agege carry on my brother jare....

Redbarry:
These ijaws are too myopic and self centred for my liking

men, you sabi them well well. their matter/reasoning nor be here at all.

ijaw with thier problem lazy set of people who troway oil give instead of fighting for resource control they are fighting for post dat not less than 10 pple will occupy--- the fools self that help gowon to create state thinking dey were doing igbos didnot know they were doing thier selfs seem dem now in delta minority see dem in rivers over monority de worry dem der
Urobo no give dem space or instead compensate dem with ogogoro and dey fish

Lucky4real28:
To be honest ijaw people complain too
Much, if an ijaw man from Bayelsa occupies that same post, those from delta will still complain. But I do understand their point of argument about the rotation thing. The itshekiri or isoko should be the ones complaining as ijaw have Vice President and a senator.

Nor mind those thieves. The Itsekiris (not Itshekiri) are the largest crude producer in the state yet they have been sidelined

Emu4life:
Remove religious bigotry out of Nigeria's problem, we still have Tribalism.
It is well

Tribalism may be an even greater problem.

Truly ijaws are greedy, urhobos should atleast enjoy this little moment now,,.. and isokos , ilaje ,istekiri, ibibio, efik and kalabari should all enjoy the position before it returns to ijaw..

Even if you give an ijaw man the position, nothing meaningful would happen.. look at Jonathan that was giving good opurtunity but oga looted and drank like crazy

Same Ijaw militants were sponsored back then to leadcity university, and paid good money monthly just to school for free, yet this guys would stay at their lodge to drink all day, and beat up private school students like thugs, that time city was almost turned to a cult war zone


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