The Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide (IYCW) has asked President Buhari to order oil companies to develop the Niger-Delta region.
They have demanded that the President command oil companies to contribute towards developing the North-East.
The IYCW spokesman said “Although the North-East is a victim of its own destruction, Ijaw have nothing against any plans to help IDPs and to develop the region.
“However, we find it quite traumatic that the government and its agencies that have never considered for over 60 years to instruct the oil companies ‘devastating’ our once fertile lands and rivers, thereby dislocating our local economies, are today instructing them to contribute to the development of the North-East destroyed by its own homegrown terrorism.
“But at the same time, the Federal Government has remained mute about the development of the Niger Delta where the oil companies get the resources that are being directed to be siphoned to the North-East. It is a known historical truth that the Niger Delta has suffered far worse than the IDPs in the North-East.’’
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