By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau
Youths of the oil producing Niger Delta region
have warned the in-coming administration of
Major General Muham-madu Buhari against
reducing the Niger Delta Development
Commission, NDDC, to a parastatal under the
Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs.
The warning came against the backdrop of the
alleged plan by the next government to
implement the recommendations of the Steve
Oransaye Committee Report on the
rationalization and merger of some Federal
Government Ministries, Departments and
Agencies, MDAs.
Rising from a meeting in Warri, Delta State, at
the weekend, a coalition, comprising 26 youth
and ex-militant groups under the aegis South-
South Mandate, vowed to resist any move
that could impede the rapid transformation of
the region currently being undertaken by the
NNDC.
According to the youths, in a communiqué
signed by the Chief Convener, Mr. Victor Akpe,
making the NDDC a parastatal under the
Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs would mean
bogging the commission’s projects down with
civil service bureaucracy.
“In as much as we grudgingly decided to allow
peace to reign after we were dubiously and
maliciously rigged out of the presidency, our
reluctant acceptance of that faulty March 28,
2015 electoral abracadabra over a sitting
President from Niger Delta, a charade never
recorded in the history of electoral contest in
Nigeria, should not be misconstrued as
capitulation by the youth of Niger Delta, now
galvanized under the South-south Mandate,
SSM,”the youths said.
“While we are still evaluating the import of
March 28, 2015 presidential poll robbery
through a well-orchestrated regional gang-up,
procedural compromise and massive
intimidation of the electorate in some parts of
the country, we shall vehemently resist further
humiliation and annihilation of our people”.
The youths noted in the communiqué which
was made available to newsmen in Abuja, that
as the closest government interventionist
agency to the poor and neglected people of
the Niger Delta region, they would not tolerate
any attempt to further suffocate the NDDC
since it remained the only government agency
that has direct impact on the oil bearing
communities.
“Niger Deltans shall no longer allow their
interest to be subjugated and trampled upon
by the Federal Government of Nigeria under
whatever guise”, they added.
They contended that if part of the reasons for
the planned merger was based on some
frivolous complaints of non-performance
against the agency by some disgruntled
individuals, the Federal Government should be
held responsible for its refusal to release over
N700billion statutory funds owed the agency
which would have gone a long way in
executing its projects and programmes.
While emphasizing that the NDDC must be
allowed to function independently under the
presidency as presently constituted and be
allowed to continue to draw its funding from
the current First-Line charge, the youths
warned that they neither issue threats without
a cause, nor strike without exhausting all
possible channels of consultation and seeking
redress. Rather than merge the commission
with the ministry, the youths urged the
incoming Buhari adminis-tration to release the
entire N700 billion being owed it and ensure
prompt release of its funds, subsequently.



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Broke people always think they have an opinion.

These foools should just shut up

Can these lazy touts stop distracting Buhari with their incessant demands?

Buhari will be the president of Nigeria and not Niger-Delta.

Haba!

I hope Buhari has more sense than to listen to all these demands being made by touts who are only worried about their stomach. How many projects has the NDDC or Ministry of Niger Delta completed, their building itself is not even completed. We have those two seperate entities and people are still complaining of east west road and port harcourt airport is still not complete. Let us be honest, the people who run those parastatals are crooks. Orubebe, Wike, Patience and the like, that is their personal bank account.

Buhari would be wise to ignore all their threats and focus on making life better for the everybody, majority of whom do not benefit from these parastatals and the massive corruption they oversee. For these parastatals to continue there has to be SERIOUS reform in which politicians are completely removed from it and it is run by technocrats. Right now they are just a joke.

Bitterness and denial. Jonathan lost and woefully too, even with rigging. Without rigging, the loss would have caused chaos because it would have been a shameful loss. NDDCshould be under Niger Delta ministry. Talk to your leaders to address any issues you may have. When oil becomesa useless commodity that ministry should be scrapped. We either scrap Niger Delta ministry and Keep NDDC or NDDC i put under Niger Delta Ministry till further notice

after nnpc the greatest pipe drain of resources is nddc.only few people knw about this.i once went on monitoring of their projects that when knw the level of corruption in this country..
it's a pity

That is where the gbege will start from if he tries it. (Eji ya gbara onya)

Lazy people.

Nothing lasts forever and you must know that.

PassingShot:
Lazy people.

Nothing lasts forever and you must know that.

Then be prepared to forgo all oil allocation to your rusty roof state you oil drinker.
Leave our crude oil for us Niger Delta.
Have you ever seen me coming to demand for your cocoa money

pistol:


Then be prepared to forgo all oil allocation to your rusty roof state you oil drinker.
Leave our crude oil for us Niger Delta.
Have you ever seen me coming to demand for your cocoa money

It's our God-given natural resource and it belongs to NIGERIA.

If e pain you, G n D!

If merging will make the projects to be delivered faster then so be it because right now its poor quality jobs they are delivering and mostly signboards.

He should merge Dem or scrap nddc. Also merge all efcc,icpc etc and reduce nnpc wit all its plenty sub companies. In fact, scrap all dos plenty agencies in government sef.