Niger Delta Militants on Thursday declared all National Assembly members, enemies of the state for irresponsibly consenting to cutbacks of funds to key infrastructural projects in the 2018 budget; threatening to deal with them and blow up their properties in the region.
The militants who met at Benin River, Egbema in Delta state, stated that when the budget provisions for various projects in that region was compared to the wealth obtained from the region’s crude oil, they further castigated the lawmakers for their “ineptitude, foolishness, non-committed approach and dumbness.”
They expressed their grievances saying: “It is shameful and abysmal failure on the part of our legislators in the National Assembly, to sit down and endorse this injustice done to the people of the region when the President had already allocated funds for such projects with direct positive impact on the people.”
They also highlighted the reduction of funds allocated to the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenko, saying this was one project that they had sacrificed their lives in the creek to fight for; the second Niger bridge; the East-West road that cuts across all the Niger Delta states, which former President Jonathan and his PDP government could not complete among other critical projects by the National Assembly.
