An NGO, Positive Alliance for the Niger Delta, PAND, says governors of states in the region “have helped in no small measure to pauperise the citizens of their states”.
The group made this allegation at the Press centre in Warri recently during a media briefing held with selected correspondents.
According to PAND, “the planlessness, greed and profligacy” of governors in the Niger Delta has further worsen the woes of indigenes of the region in so much that the “basic necessities of life such as food, shelter, water and light are still luxuries to the average Niger Deltan”. The Regional Spokesman of the group, Barr. Martins Ahweyevu Mukoro further told newsmen that the level of infrastructural decay, decline in education and health services as well as neglect of agriculture, security of lives and property “all combine to make the Niger Delta region one of the most unsafe places to live in”.
While promising that the group will strive to correct the misrepresentation people have about the region via advocacy, Barr. Mukoro vowed that they will act as watch dog on issues of political, economic empowerment, environmental as well as job placement abuse and discrimination that is oppressive and dehumanising to people of the region.
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