Itsekiri leader calls for sack of Akpabio as NDDC minister.
By Oluchi Ihediuche
Itsekiri Community leader in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, Prince David Odeli is calling on for the removal of Godswill Akpabio as the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs.
He accused the former Governor of corruption under the disguise of overseeing the purported forensic audit of the commission.
Odeli made this call on Tuesday in Warri, Delta State, while addressing journalists, nothing that the Minister wants to remove the Niger Delta Development from the supervision of the Presidency to enable him run the commission like a personal estate and ward off the prying eyes of agencies saddled with the responsibility of ensuring accountability of public funds.
” I want to challenge the Minister and his controlled NDDC to tell the world the project( s) they have executed in Itsekiri lands across Warri South, Warri South – West, Warri North, Uvwie,,Ethiope West and other parts of Delta and Edo States since assuming absolute control of NDDC and deliberately frustrating the appointment and inauguration of a substantive board for the commission”,
Odeli stated that since Akpabio and Mr. Akwa, have made, ” the NDDC a settlement arena for ex – militants and media propagandists as well as chosen to pacify few ethnic leaders, rather than concentrate on the core mandate of developing the Niger Delta Oil producing communities,” Itsekiris from the oil producing communities, are now left with no other option, but act the language Akpabio and the Federal Government understands”.
