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A civil society organisation under the aegis of Niger Delta Volunteers For Good Governance, NDVFGG, has said that the planned protest against hardship in Nigeria must take place in the Niger Delta region.


DAILY POST reports that the president of the organisation, Ben Bowei, aka Lord Major 1 of the Niger Delta, disclosed this in a chat with newsmen.

Bowei’s position was against the backdrop of calls by many stakeholders in the region to shelve the planned protest, particularly in the Niger Delta region of the country.


He opined that those calling on the organisers to shelve the protest are doing so for their selfish interests.

According to him: “Being someone who has been in the Niger Delta struggle for years and a promoter of good governance, I can’t but mobilise over 2, 000 members across the Niger Delta region to occupy major streets, including East-West Road, during the protest.”

The former national treasurer of the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, said he felt bad seeing individuals put their interests above the suffering of the region.

‘What are we even saying? That Niger Delta people, particularly the youths, should not join in the planned protest against hardship when we have hunger everywhere? When hunger is written on the faces of our people? That is not possible.

“Those who made the call made it for their own selfish interest. I am aware some of them collected money to speak against the proposed protest, but we at NDVFGG have already mobilised our men to occupy the streets in the region. We can’t continue this way.

“We have mobilised our members of over two thousand across the Niger Delta to that effect. We must protest! We are for the betterment of our people, and we must insist on good governance,” he said.

The Ijaw chief from the Furupagha clan also spoke on interventionist agencies set up to better the well-being of the people of the Niger Delta and alleged that the agencies have equally failed the people of the region.

While describing their failure as part of bad governance, he added that they are also going to occupy their offices and demand an end to the alleged mismanagement of the agencies.

“Interventionist agencies such as the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, have failed us woefully. This is part of the bad governance we are talking about. We are not going to take it likely with the NDDC these days ahead in the protest,” he stated.

Source: https://dailypost.ng/Selfish-leaders-behind-calls-to-boycott-protests-Niger-Delta-group

Wala everywhere god help us

izenco2005:
Wala everywhere god help us

Heaven helps those who help themselves brother

RONU go claim say na IGBO... forgetting that even in Yoruba land, because of joblessness and poverty, has recruits for protest yapa.

Na SW and North go carry this thing for head... It's still early days. When it becomes more engaging. The real MEN will fall in...

No IGBO or ND will take the fall for the foolishness of sophisticated wretches and their almajiri compatriots..

When e set ..it will be naturally evolving...

FACTs

These Niger Delta leaders are just looking for excuses to protect their own interests. They are the same ones who have pocketed our resources while we suffer. Protests are a chance for the masses to speak up, but they would rather silence us than face the truth about their failures. It's all about maintaining their grip on power, not about what’s best for the people. Let’s not be fooled by their rhetoric; they want to keep us in the dark while they feast on our misery.

Plenty groups already.
Someone for fg, others for the masses.
The masses always wins

AqualinaXYZ:

who this again

Dokubo na mu.mu

Na their agent dining with them

I call them greedy and self-centered. Very wicked lots, you expect people to keep quiet while things are going haywire

Selfishness at its peak.

These leaders are just looking for a way to keep their pockets fat while the masses suffer. Protests will only give them more ammunition to silence the voices of the real people.

Why waste time on protests when they will just twist it to suit their agenda?

People are reporting slow internet networks all over Nigeria.


I think the Telcos are working hard to reduce the protest tempo by restricting internet access to Nigerians.

franchasng:
People are reporting slow internet networks all over Nigeria.


I think the Telcos are working hard to reduce the protest tempo by restricting internet access to Nigerians.

They don't know they aes easy target for angry protesters... They better respect themselves

Yehn Yehn Yehn

These Niger Delta people don dey show their true colors again.

Instead of addressing the real issues, they are busy pointing fingers at leaders who are only trying to save face. Who are these leaders to talk about boycotting protests when they have failed the people time and again?

It's the same old story; they just want to divert attention from their own incompetence. All this talk about protests is just a distraction from the fact that they have been feeding fat while the common man suffers.

The so-called leaders should be the ones leading by example, not hiding behind empty rhetoric.

At the end of the day, these protests will amount to nothing because the same hands that should be guiding us are the ones tying us down. It’s a pity that genuine voices get drowned in the noise of selfish agendas.