Niger Delta Youths Has Warn Buhari Against Reducing NDDC To Parastatal

Some Niger Delta youths coalition have warned the incoming administration of General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) against downgrading the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to a parastatal under the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs.

Their warning was informed by a purported plot by the next government to implement the recommendations of the Steve Oransaye Committee Report on the rationalization and merger of some Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, ran by the Federal Government.

Rising from a meeting yesterday in Warri, Delta State, the coalition which comprised 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.

In a communiqué signed by the Chief Convener, Mr. Victor Akpe, the youths held that making the NDDC a parastatal under the Ministry of the Niger Delta Affairs would mean bogging the commission’s projects down with civil service bureaucracy.

According to them, “Inasmuch 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.