Following the debacle of the Niger Delta Development Commission, read more about it here, the Itsekiri Libation Group has now called on the Federal Government to appoint a substantive board or face the consequences.
According to a statement by the group, all NDDC projects within the community must be funded by the Federal Government and the sole administration by the Federal Government must be discontinued as it contradicts the laws established in 2000 in guiding the NDDC.
Failure to comply will mean all oil installations within the community will be shut and offices across Delta and Edo state will suffer the same fate. They also threaten to decimate all oil and gas installations until their demands are met.
Read their demands in part below
“Over the years, we have noticed with utmost dismay that the Federal Government is taking the peaceful and law-abiding disposition of the Itsekiri people for granted.
“In the recent past, the Federal Government have completely neglected the Itsekiri people in the scheme of things in the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
“We will no longer tolerate the Federal Government and minister of Niger Delta’s flimsy excuse of conducting Forensic Audit because it is clear that the forensic audit is a charade and a deliberate attempt to stay glued to power and further impoverish our people in oil and gas producing communities in the Niger-Delta.
“Therefore, we will not condole any deliberate act to control the resources in our land without following laid down laws backing the establishment of NDDC.
“The Federal government should include all projects in Itsekiri area such as Koko -Ogheye Road, Omadino-Excravos (Ugborodo), Jakpa to Ogheye to Ugbege road, Rural Electrification project from Koko to Benin River in Warri North, Koko shoreline protection etc in the NDDC budget and all projects should be properly funded and executed in line with global engineering standards. We will vehemently resist abandoned projects.
Itsekiri Libation Group
