A Niger Delta group, Urhobo Monitoring and
Development Group, on Saturday called on President Muhammadu Buhari-led
administration to fix the country’s ailing economy from sliding into total
collapse.
Oberuruaria stressed that there was nothing wrong
for a government to wedge war against corruption but the same attention should
also be accorded to the nation’s dying economy where the average Nigerian can
hardly afford a meal per day at present.
The group said it has observed that the APC-led federal government was not
doing enough to tackle the economy which it reminded the government that hunger
knows no political or religious affiliations.
It also expressed reservation with the ongoing
diversification into economy and other sectors saying that the Niger Delta
region was being ignore in that directive.
“Fighting corruption is good but the revival of
the economy needs greater attention in this present time where the average
Nigerian can barely afford a meal in the present circumstances. The truth is
that Nigerians are hungry and you don’t need a soothsayer to know”, UMDG boss
added.
It added that effort to know what the government
was doing so far to raise living standard of Niger Delta, it said, “We observed
that the government diversification is mainly concentrated in the north,
nothing so far in the south especially oil-rich Niger Delta.
“The renewed militancy should not be excused for
our exclusion. We have not heard anything about the revival of Delta Steel
Company Aladja since President Buhari took over. Government needs to support
the full take off of EPZ Ogidigbe. All these should be the palliatives to
appeals the people of the region.”
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