West particularly accused the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, of playing politics with the development of the region, through the ministry.
He said: “We want the Ministry of Niger Delta to be scrapped. NDDC is a stakeholders’ driven institution. It is a democratic representation of the people of Niger Delta. “Therefore, checks and balances and monitoring will be very effective. There is the need to scrap the Ministry of Niger Delta and leave NDDC to function optimally.“We are advocating that the Niger Delta Development Commission should still be under the Presidency because in less than two years, we have suffered gross injustice in NDDC. The NDDC has more connect with us than the Niger Delta Ministry.
The MOSIEND leader also called for the review of the 3% host community fund approved by the National Assembly for oil producing communities in the Niger Delta region. West stated that 3% was not enough to compensate host communities for the environmental degradation taking place in their area as a result of oil exploration activities.
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