Demands for Akpabio’s sack
By Chioma Onuegbu – Uyo
Akwa Ibom ex-militant group on the platform of Niger Delta Volunteers, NDV, has given the federal government 14days to meet its demands, failure of which it would have no option than to shut down all oil operations in the State.
The group in a statement signed self- styled General Ekpo Ekpo and Capt. Nsidibe Etim , made available to newsmen yesterday in Uyo, said they would no longer keep silent while greedy politicians continue to vandalise the resources of the Niger Delta region at the expense of the suffering masses.
The ex-militant group listed some of the demands to include the immediate dissolution of the Interim Management Commission, IMC, of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and a substantive board reconstituted to run the affairs of the commission.
They also demanded the sack of Senator Godswill Akpabio as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs for alleged misconduct and abuse of office and expressed the anger that most Akwa Ibom ex-militants were excluded from the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) because when Akpabio was a governor he had told the Amnesty Office that there were no ex-militants from the State.
The statement reads in part, “The Niger Delta Volunteers can no longer keep silent, while a few money-hungry politicians, continue to vandalise the resources of the Niger Delta region at the expense of the suffering masses.
The ex-militant group equally condemned the recent redeployment and compulsory retirement/leave of some key management staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission.

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