Niger Delta Leaders To President Buhari: We Want Oil Blocs

By Levinus Nwabughiogu
ABUJA – Stakeholders from the Niger Delta region of the country have demanded that the region be included in the sharing and ownership of the oil blocs in the country.
This was among the set of 16 demands pressed on President Muhammadu Bahari at a crucial meeting in Abuja Tuesday
Other demands included the review of the presidential amnesty Programme, Relocation of Administrative and Operational Headquarters of IOCs
to the area of operation, the approval of Maritime University, Strengthening the Niger Delta Ministry, resuscitation of Key regional critical
infrastructures, the resentment of Bakassi indigenes, restructuring and funding of the NNDC. Others were the introduction of fiscal federalism,
economic development and empowerment of Niger delta people, improvement of power supply, security surveillance and protection of oil and
gas infrastructure, meeting the immediate need of the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, the effect of increased military presence in the Niger
delta and The Ogoni clean-up and environmental remediation. Rising from the meeting which lasted about 3 hours at the council chambers of
the presidential villa, Abuja on Tuesday, the leaders who were galvanized under the aegis of Pan Niger Delta Forum led by chief Edwin Clarke
stated that the issues were critical to finding lasting peace in Niger Delta.

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