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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   Obasanjo has failed N-Delta — Eregbene By Emma Amaize Monday, October 04, 2004 WARRI — NATIONAL President of the Niger Delta Oil Producing Communities Development Organization  (NIDOPCODO), Chief Saturday Eregbene, one of the Niger Delta leaders that was used by President Olusegun Obasanjo to  calm the restive people of the region in 1999, said weekend, that Obasanjo has failed woefully in his promise to him (Eregbene)  when he contracted him, five years ago, to develop the region in six months. “Five years have gone but nothing is done and instead the military might is used to quel civil unrests and so I am really  disappointed”, Chief Eregbene who claimed that God was not happy with Obasanjo’s policies regarding the Ijaw race said in a  statement, that was made available to Vanguard in Warri. Chief Eregbene who warned against the use of force in the Niger Delta because it would lead to disaster noted that the Ijaw  nation was on its own and was not under any state before 1914, adding that “they only signed treaties with the British  government before Lord Lugard’s amalgamation in 1914. “In 1960 and 1963 Independence and Republican Constitutions, it was not shown that the North should have 19 states, the  West — six states, East — five states and the Ijaw, the fourth largest tribe only one state and eight local government areas. The  Hausa created these states during the military rule. Of the 44 years of Nigeria’s independence, the Ijaw people have no light,  road and water; yet the Federal Government is deriving N10 billion daily from the sales of crude oil and gas but the money is  used in other areas where there is no crude oil and gas”, he said. He lamented that while some sections of the country were celebrating the nation’s 44 years of independence, the Niger Deltans  were crying as petrol which is sold N50 per litre in the upper land was being sold for N200 per litre in the Niger Delta.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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