IPDI Endorses Call on Buhari to Relocate Presidential Amnesty Office To Niger Delta

IPDI Endorses Call on Buhari to Relocate Presidential Amnesty Office To Niger Delta

Asaba______ The foremost Niger Delta group, the Ijaw People's Development initiative,IPDI, has thrown its support for the call for relocation of Presidential Amnesty Office to Niger Delta region to effectively and efficiently served beneficiaries of the programme. 

The call was made by the national president of the the group, Comrade Ozobo Austin following similar calls earlier made by Elder Comrade Morris Alagoa, Niger Delta frontline environmentalist and others.

The group said president Muhammadu Buhari should ordered the immediate relocation of the presidential amnesty Office to Niger Delta region as it had to do with the people of Niger Delta.

Ozobo reiterated that relocating the amnesty Office to Niger Delta would helped to serve the people better.

IPDI added that the relocation of the amnesty Office to Niger Delta would end undue inference of meticulous northerns and other crminals in the program.

Ozobo further stated that the relocation of the office would reduce corruption and manipulations of accounts and stipends of beneficiaries of the amnesty programme.

He asserted that it would helped various contractors and successive coordinators to be accountable and focused.

Gen. Ogunbos Excapes Death As Aggrieved Militants Bomb His Home ln Bayelsa

Gen. Ogunbos Excapes Death As Aggrieved Militants Bomb His Home ln Bayelsa

Francis Tayor

Yenagoa______ A coalition of aggrieved militants in Niger Delta has bombed the country home of a former militant leader in Bayelsa State, Mr. Paul Eris, alias “General” Ogunbos, who they claimed abandoned his boys to suffer in the creeks and is living big in the city.

The aggrieved militants under the auspices of Niger-Delta Cleansing Force for Development, NDCFD, weekend, bombed his country home in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State for the second time in one week.

A source revealed the former militant leader managed to escape, adding that the invasion of his home was the beginning of planned attack by foot soldiers on their erstwhile leaders, across the oil region.

The irate militants had on December 25, launched a similar attack on the the former militant leader’s home, accusing him and others of feeding fat on Presidential Amnesty Programme funds.

Our reporter could not reach the ex-militant leader yesterday, for comments as his phone lines were switched off, but a source close to him denied that he neglected his boys or misappropriated their funds, describing the allegations as false.

Spokesman of  NDCFD, Blacky Peres, in a statement, Sunday, confirmed the two  attacks, saying more attacks will come.

His words: “The group, which is made up of a coalition of militants from different camps and groups, is also responsible for the second round deadly attack on “General” Ogunbos, which took place today, Sunday,  January 3,2021 in his community.

“The militants under the NDCFD are those who fought with some self acclaimed generals for the emancipation of the zone but were neglected and left to suffer in the creeks while they live in affluence without carrying their boys along, instead set them up to be killed by the military.

“The boys are now out to cleanse the Niger Delta and most painful is that the so-called “generals” neglected their strength which is their foot soldiers and decided to live selfish life styles to the detriment of the long neglected region and we will not stop until our desire is achieved.

“All those who have used the sweat of the struggle for their personal aggrandizement will not be left out as we have fully identified  all of them in different parts of the region and we will go after them one after the other.

“Our governors, NDDC Board members, Niger Delta Ministry and other agencies of the federal and state governments supervising development for the zone that have turned public funds to their personal own will not be left out in this cleansing until we see a clear picture of development, enough is enough.”

“It is painful that Niger Deltans have continued to connived with ex militant generals, International Oil Companies, federal and state governments to shortchange the region of its needed development, this trend must stop because nobody is bigger than the region.

“What is supposed to come to the regions is diverted mid way while the people and region wallow in abject poverty, deprivation and gross underdevelopment, the so called General claim to the lords over the people, our bullets will visit them,” the rebelling militants asserted.

Ijaw Group Backs NDDC Forensic Audit, Charges Youths Of The Region To Maintain Peace

Ijaw Group Backs NDDC Forensic Audit, Charges Youths Of The Region To Maintain Peace

Francis Tayor

Warri_____ A group of Niger Delta youths under the aegis of ljaw Progressive Youth Leaders (IPYL), has throw their weight behind the forensic audit panel on NDDC approved by President Muhammadu Buhari in order to sanitize and check mate the activities of the Niger Delta development agency over the years of its operation.

The group in a Press Statement signed by Snr Comrade. Franklin D. Magada (Convener), Comrade. Jackson Agbor (Coordinator) and Gen. Sunny Clark (Stakeholder) released on Tuesday 5th January, 2021 at Warri, Delta State charged Niger Delta youths to always tow the line of peace and refrained from the habit of Pull Him Down (PHD) syndrome of their political leaders, saying it will not do the region any good rather than to impede the region from rapid social-ecinomic and infrastructural development.

The group further said they are disappointed on the activities of some youths of Niger Delta region been sponsored by some selfish politicians who sees NDDC as Cow to maintain their flamboyant lifestyle in dragging NDDC to the media on bad light before the public over corruption, Forensic Audit, lnterim Management Committee (IMC), Substantive Board and Sole Administrator appointments that was meant to sanitize the system from total collapse in the hands of corrupt politicians in the region.

According to the Press Statement, read:

Ijaw Progressive Youth Leaders

Press Release:

This Day 5th of January, 2021.

"Arising from a critical stake holders meeting in Warri, on the state of affairs of Our region Niger Delta, we deem it fit to brief the press of our resolutions as fellow:

1). As youths leaders, we have watched with a total dismay over the past few months whereby the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is opt to be interventional development agency is being dragged to the media on bad light every now and then over corruption, forensic audit, interim Management Committee, (IMC), substantive board and sole administrator. Which are sponsored by section of disgruntled Politicians from the region, who sees the NDDC as a cash Cow to maintain their flamboyant life-style.

2). We condemn the consistence Niger Delta Life style of "Pull Him Down Syndrome" of it's leader's, and that of our own Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha, Chief James Ibori all have suffered the same fate in the past is now mounted on Sen. Godswill Akpabio, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs in it's entirety and especially the recent incident where some Ijaw Youths, groups disrupt the office of the minister in Abuja, and we say' that is a foreign practice to the Niger Delta Youth mode of engagement which is intellectual approach, and that is a total affront to the authority and directive of the President of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), who is the leader of the Ijaw council world-wide. 

3). We the Niger Delta Progressive Youths Leaders, are in a total support of the forensic audit on NDDC, hence the administration of President Buhari only acted on the demands of the Niger Delta Governors of which Mr. President approved the forensic audit and again obey court orders in appointing a sole administrator to finalised the forensic auditing process. 

4). Lastly, our humble appeal to every youth in the region is to give peace a chance."

Signed:

Senior Comrade Franklin D. Magada - Convener

Senior Comrade Jackson Agbor - Coordinator

Gen. Sunny Clark -  Stake Holder.

Olorogun Gbagi Visits Tompolo Ahead Of 2023 Governorship Ambition

Olorogun Gbagi Visits Tompolo Ahead Of 2023 Governorship Ambition

Francis Tayor

Warri_____ Ahead of 2023 Delta State governorship election, the former Minister of State for Education and a frontline Governorship aspirant in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olorogun (Barr) Kenneth Gbagi has been given a warm reception In Gbaramtu Kingdom during the Yuletide to celebrate with High Chief. Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo.

The visit was tagged as a visit to his younger brother, High Chief Government Ekpomolo (AKA Tompolo), a former warlord of Niger Delta to celebrate the new year during the weekend at his country home Oporoza, in Warri South-West LGA, Delta State.

According to Tompolo, said: " My elder brother, Chief Gbagi, you have done well to visit your younger brother in the season of celebration, especially the end of the year, which is a season of celebration and to show love to one another. May the good Lord continue to protect and guide us as we enter 2021, he remarked."

In his reaction, Chief Gbagi thanked High Chief. Tompolo for the warm reception, stressing that he will not only visit Tompolo during Christmas and New Year but always when necessary. " As my younger brother. I will visit you whenever the need arises, Gbagi noted“.