Warri: The people of Ndokwa ethnic nation had called on both the federal government of Nigeria and that of Delta state to develop the area to avoid the rise of agitation in the area from the people especially the youths.
The reaction from the people of the area was expressed by the trio of the President-General of the Ndokwa Neku Union (NNU), Chief Johnson Opone, Dr Mrs Esther Uduehi, a member of the state advisory committee on peace and security, and Rt. Hon Olisa Imeagu during the one-day stakeholders’ consultative meeting of Niger Delta Coastal States held in Effurun-Warri on Friday, 18 August, 2016, at the Petroleum Training Institute.
They told the meeting that the government had not bothered to look at developing the area, despite the huge resources of crude oil and Gas of 100 barrel a day out of the 1.5 million production daily by the country, especially having the highest gas deposit in the country.
The leaders used the occasion to draw the attention of the government to the act of injustice to the people of Ndokwa where the Okpai power plant, is servicing nine states including the federal capital territory, with light from the power plant, while Ndokwa nation remained in darkness.
They called for the step down of the power plant in Ndokwa nation, and the establishment of an institution of higher learning in the area.
On the issue of the youth disturbance in the, they told the gathering not to take the silence of the Ndokwa people, especially the youths as an act of coward from the area.
“The youths of Ndokwa are vicious, and brave and their peaceful disposition should not be taking for cowardliness”.
They called on the government, both federal and the state to treat the problem of the Niger Delta holistically, and not just an Ijaw affair.
