President Muhammadu Buhari has advised the people of the Niger Delta region to embrace peace in order to allow his administration to massively develop the area.
The President, represented by Mr. Ikechukwu Emenike, stated this on Tuesday in Abuja during a Talkshop entitled, “President Muhammadu Buhari and the Niger Delta struggle for development.”
At the event, which was organised by a civil rights organisation, Change Ambassadors of Nigeria, an Initiative of Gatekeepers Foundation, a former Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr. Timi Alaibe, said that the Federal Government owed the NDDC N750bn.
Buhari, while recalling that he mentioned no other region apart from the Niger Delta in his inaugural speech, said that he was part and parcel of the region.
He promised to invest heavily in the Niger Delta but that the people of the region must play their own part by ensuring that peace reigned in the oil-rich area.
“All we need now is peace and real commitment of peace from the Niger Delta to bring the desired development to the region because without peace nothing can work. Because of the perception of lack of peace, we need to speed up development and embrace peace in the region,” he said.
