The Leadership of the Ijaw Youth Council FCT/Northern Region has vowed to occupy the Federal Secretariat Complex from Wednesday 23rd March 2023 until further notice is the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is not inaugurated within the shortest period possible.

This position was presented in a communiqué issued by the Leadership of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) Abuja Chapter/Northern Region on Tuesday 22nd March 2022 in Abuja.

In a communiqué issued following a stakeholders emergency meeting which held on Sunday 20th March 2022 which was attended by critical stakeholders including the Niger Delta Ex-Agitators Forum led by HRH Dr Selky Kile Torughedi (Young Shall Grow, was represented by his Secretary Emomotimi Zepribo Pius (Esq).

The stakeholders meeting was conveyed by the Leadership of IYC in order to address what they described as the prolonged “Non-Constitution of the NDDC Board” by the Honorable Minister, Ministry for Niger Delta Affairs, HE Senator Godswill Akpabio.

The communiqué signed by the Secretary of IYC Abuja Chapter/North Nigeria Comrade Comr. Churchill O. Amiekumo, called the attention of the Federal Government to fact that ” NDDC is now 22 years since the establishment of the commission from year 2000 to 2022 without having proper Infrastructural developmental to show for the resources Being accrued to the Commission.”

They stressed that “This negative report ignites His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari, in January 2019, to order for a forensic audit into the operations of NDDC from 2001 to 2019. As a council, we all supported the Forensic audit ordered by Mr. President and we all waited to see the good outcome of the forensic audit to ascertain those who were behind the under development of the Niger Delta region.”

Following these, they came up with the following demands;

1. The Hon. Minister should tell Nigerians and most importantly Niger Deltans whom he is “serving” as a Minister and also expose those indicted in the forensic audit report.
2. The Minister should tell us Which State and Local Government they are from
   The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should make the report public for onward persecution.
3. The NDDC Board should be inaugurated within a short possible time
4. We demand for the comprehensive list of the Training and Empowerment delegates carried out by the Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs from 2015 to 2022, to ascertain the identity of the people selected for the said training.
5. We ask to know the beneficiaries’ states, Local government Areas and Communities in the Niger Delta States.”

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Ijaw Youth Council Threatens to Occupy Federal Secretariat