He said this at a Town Hall meeting to address destruction of oil and gas infrastructure in the Niger Delta region organized by the ministry of Information in Abuja on Monday.”The solution to this is to give comfort to the host communities that produce the oil. “When amnesty program was not in place, we saw the level of vandalization.
Now that amnesty is here, there is reduction in violence in the region. “That tells you that the Niger Delta people are not hostile; they are peace loving people and not an economic saboteur.” An average Niger Deltan wants the progress of this country and in wanting the progress, they also want to involved, happy and have a sense of belonging. “The least share of the oil revenue any host community deserves is 5%.
This is the belief of every Niger Deltan.”Tunji-Ojo who is representing Akoko North East/North West at the Green chamber also implored all cooperate organization to contribute the funding of NOA.He stressed that the presence of the NOA in all the 774 local government areas in the country is enough reason to fund the agency as it is closer to the people.”I want to advise the ministry of information to take this event to the Niger Delta states.
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