Niger Delta Monarch Demands Sack of Akapbio for Non-constitution of NDDC Board, Others

Agitation heightened at the weekend over the continued non-constitution of a substantive board for the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), as the Traditional Leader of Idjerhe Kingdom in Delta State, HRM. King Obukowho Monday Whiskey, demanded the immediate sack of the Minister of the Niger Delta, Mr. Godswill Akpabio.

The angry monarch hinged his call for Akpabio’s sack on the non- performance of the intervention agency in the region.

Whiskey also decried the litany of abandoned NDDC’s projects in his domain and the region.

He told journalists in Benin City, Edo State, that all efforts to speak out against the ills of the commission against the region and to draw the attention of the President Muhammadu Buhari, to the plight of the region has not yielded any result.

Whiskey appealed to Buhari to rescue the Niger Delta, adding that all multi-national oil companies operating in the region should relocate their headquarters to where the resources are sourced.

He said: "I believe the happenings in the NDDC are not new to anybody in this region. President Muhammadu Buhari must come to the rescue of the Niger Delta people at this critical time. If giving the agency to ministry is to make it more effective, then the intention to domicile NDDC with the Ministry of Niger Delta has failed completely.

"This is because we have come to now notice that NDDC was domiciled in the Ministry of Niger Delta for political reasons, so that one individual can dictate the pace of development or economic empowerment of individuals and organisations in the entire oil and gas producing states of the country.

"The damage to the region of the oil producing communities and as a result of that I have no hesitation to tell Mr. President to sack the minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio now.