Warri: The people of Ndokwa
ethnic nation have called on both the federal government of Nigeria and Delta
state Government to develop the area to avoid the rise of agitation in the area
from the people especially the youths.
This call was made 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, Warri.
They told the meeting that the government has not bothered to look
at the issue of 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 cowardice from the area.
“The youths of Ndokwa are vicious, and brave and their peaceful disposition
should not be taken 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.
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