Uneasy Calm Over 'Scrapped' Niger Delta Affairs Ministry

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Uneasy calm reigned in the Niger Delta region yesterday 24 hours after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu allocated portfolios to ministers-designate in his cabinet.

Reliable sources within the Presidency said that Tinubu and his crop of advisers were not convinced about the arguments in favour of the sustenance of a specific ministry to handle development challenges in the region.

Multiple sources in the Presidency told this newspaper that the revelation that no project had neither been commissioned or completed by the ministry since its establishment in 2008, except a cassava processing plant in Ondo State, practically convinced Tinubu that the ministry had not added value to the wellbeing of the inhabitants of the troubled oil-rich belt.

Subsequently, it was resolved that the East/West Road be transferred to the Federal Ministry of Works for re-evaluation and speedy completion while NDDC is to be strengthened and adequately funded to be able to meet development exigencies of the region under the supervision of the Presidency. A popular Niger Delta activist, Comrade Joseph Ambakederimo, challenged the president to come out with full disclosure over the fate the ministry.

Akume and Gbajabiamila are said to be at each other’s throat over whose office would control and supervise the development agency in the Presidency.

 

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