The Niger Delta leaders under the aegis of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum have met with the president, Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday and presented him with 16 fresh demands.
The Niger Delta leaders noted that the demands were the key to achieving and restring hope and confidence in the Niger Delta region.
The Pan-Niger Delta Forum noted that the Niger Delta region has “grown skeptical of dialogue and engagements that have hardly produced tangible results”.
The 16-point demand by the Niger Deltans include allocation of oil blocs to natives of the region, maritime university, stop of military occupation of communities and proper funding of the amnesty programme.
The leaders further demanded extension of Ogoni clean-up to other areas of the region, employment opportunities for trained ex-militants and support for internally displaced persons in the region.
Contained in the 16-point demand also is the relocation of international oil companies that have their head offices in Lekki and other places back to their areas of operations, infrastructural development, manpower and human resources development, federalism, among others.
Chief Edwin Clark while addressing the journalists after the two-hour-closed-door meeting which held at the State House in Abuja said: “We have no other country than Nigeria. We cannot continue to destroy the assets of the country and the ecosystem of our environment.”