President Muhammadu Buhari has advised
the people of the Niger Delta region to embrace peace in order to allow
his administration to massively develop the area.
The President, represented by Mr.
Ikechukwu Emenike, stated this on Tuesday in Abuja during a Talkshop
entitled, “President Muhammadu Buhari and the Niger Delta struggle for
development.”
At the event, which was organised by a
civil rights organisation, Change Ambassadors of Nigeria, an Initiative
of Gatekeepers Foundation, a former Chairman of the Niger Delta
Development Commission, Mr. Timi Alaibe, said that the Federal
Government owed the NDDC N750bn.
Buhari, while recalling that he
mentioned no other region apart from the Niger Delta in his inaugural
speech, said that he was part and parcel of the region.
He promised to invest heavily in the
Niger Delta but that the people of the region must play their own part
by ensuring that peace reigned in the oil-rich area.
“All we need now is peace and real
commitment of peace from the Niger Delta to bring the desired
development to the region because without peace nothing can work.
Because of the perception of lack of peace, we need to speed up
development and embrace peace in the region,” he said.
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