The Pan Niger Delta Forum has kicked against the Federal Government’s plan to spend £4.2 million recovered James Ibori loot on projects outside Delta State.
It commended the members of the House of Representatives on their patriotic and unanimous resolution during plenary, directing the Federal Government to halt the plan and upheld that the money be handed over to Delta State once it was returned by the United Kingdom.
PANDEF criticized the Federal Executive Council’s approval of the reconstruction of Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Road at an outrageous amount of N797 Billion, while Road projects in the Niger Delta region have been fund-starved or abandoned. Meanwhile, Oil and Gas resources from the Niger Delta remain the nation’s economic mainstay. Claiming that this sort of inequitable approval does not only further characterizes the Federal Government as non-nationalistic but also undermines national concord and peace.
