A militant group known as the Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders, NDRC, has warned the Federal Government to sack the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, or it will make the region ungovernable.
NDRC gave the call in a statement issued by its spokesperson, WOI Izon-Ebi, on Friday.
According to the statement, the separatist group also demanded the probe of the NDDC board from the tenure of Godsday Orubebe till date.
The statement reads in part, “We want The Federal Government to allow the people of Niger Delta region to choose their leaders and control their God -given resources.
“We want the appointment of directors of all Federal Government agencies and parastatals in the Niger Delta to be apolitical; we want the federal government to allow the people of the Niger Delta to recommend the best brains and technocrats to occupy the various offices if truly they are sincere and committed to the wellbeing, peace and development of the Niger Delta.
“We want the Ministry of Niger Delta to be probed from the tenure of former minister, Elder Godsday Orubebe to date and the East-West Road in particular.
“We want also the NDDC to be probed from the time of Dan Abia to the present Board.
“We want the present board of the NDDC to be sacked immediately because they lack vision and focus.
“We want the EFCC to swing into action to probe the present NDDC board because with the facts available to us, which we would publish next, it will be shameful.
“If this present administration that rode to power with the slogan of fighting corruption refuses to hear to our plea, we, on our own, will make that place ungovernable for them because NDDC was created by the sacrifices and blood of the Niger Delta people. We would not sit and watch some group of unpatriotic Niger Deltans that lack vision of the NDDC to continue to enrich themselves to the detriment of the Niger Delta.”
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