In a scathing indictment, the National President of Nigeria’s Unemployed Youths Association (UYAN) has declared the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Managing Director, Sam Ogbuku “incompetent”, urging President Bola Tinubu to ‘let him go’.
After a tense town hall meeting with South-South representatives in Sabon Tasha Kaduna, the National President of UYAN, Ebi Clifford Zuofa lambasted the NDDC boss for gross incompetence, negligence, and blatant disregard for the region’s welfare.
“Ogbuku must go,” Zuofa said, condemning the NDDC’s catastrophic failure to address Niger Delta’s “crippling poverty, rampant corruption and staggering underdevelopment.”
According to Zuofa, UYAN is concerned that since Ogbuku was appointed the NNDC boss, Niger Delta has neither experienced any form of development nor has the commission reduced the high rate of joblessness in the region
UYAN also made a shocking statistic revealing Niger Deltans desperate plight in that direction.
The UYAN President who said his group was in Kaduna to gauge the pulse of Nigerians from the North, noted that the North and South-South share certain peculiarities.
Zuofa contended that, just like in the North, 87 percent of Nigeria’s poor people are in the Niger Delta, adding that the region has the second-highest out-of-school children in the country after the North
“Upon that, there is endemic corruption devouring resources in the Niger Delta region as can be seen in the NDDC.
“We are in the North today to meet unemployed youths from the region and to see what we can do to help further the cause of unemployed Nigerians .
“The youths in the South South of Nigeria which is also referred to as the Niger Delta region are suffering similar economic deprivation like what is being witnessed in the North, Zuofa,” he said.
Fielding questions from journalists, Secretary General of the group, Dr. Aliu Femi said: “We are warning of massive protests in Abuja, Port Harcourt and other parts of the country if the Federal Government does not remove Sam Ogbuku as the head of the NDDC.”
