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Group says budget 2009 is not Niger Delta friendly
The United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS), the coalition of
all Niger Delta ethnic nationalities, has dismissed the 2009 National Budget proposed by
President YarAdua as being “unfriendly to the Niger Delta and indicative of the contempt in
which the FGN holds the region”.
“It is instructive that at a time when the nation is increasingly paying lip-service to resolving the multi-
faceted issues of the region”, UNDEDSS President, Professor Pat Utomi stated, “the 2009 Budget
shows there is a conspiracy to keep the region underdeveloped and denied of justice”.
Noting that, in the 2008 budgetary allocation, the National Assembly “increased” the NDDC budget to
N84 billion, but that the money was not fully released, Professor Utomi wondered how the FGN
decided that only N27billion be budgeted to the NDDC now, “especially in the light that this is a
government that has refused to pay the outstanding money statutorily due to the NDDC, amounting to
over N300billion, even whilst claiming to champion the rule-of-law principle”.
“Even if the FGN argues that it is simultaneously funding Niger Delta development through the new
Niger Delta Ministry”, the UNDEDSS President continued, " the total N77billion allocated to both the
NDDC and the Ministry falls far short of what a serious-minded government needs to fast-track
development in the nine states of this much-cheated region that lays the golden eggs on which the whole
nation depends”.
UNDEDSS Secretary-General, Tony Ipriye Uranta, went further to demand that “since the FGN
deems it necessary for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to receive one per cent of monies accruing
to the Federal Government, the new Niger Delta ministry should, accordingly, be statutorily given not
less than five per cent to cater for nine states’ needs”, and noting that “if the President does not
drastically review these allocations upwards, the region may lose confidence in his commitment to truly
bring about speedy and sustained positive change to our peoples and environment”.
UNDEDSS demanded that President YarAdua’s administration be more sensitive and positive
towards the region, claiming that “the FGN should speedily and faithfully implement the
recommendations of the Ledum Mitee-led Technical Committee on the Niger Delta as articulated in the
Committee’s Report submitted to the President recently”, concluding by stating that “the peoples of the
Niger Delta eagerly and hopefully await government’s White Paper on the Committee’s Report before
the end of the year 2008”.
The United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS), the coalition of
all Niger Delta ethnic nationalities, has dismissed the 2009 National Budget proposed by
President YarAdua as being “unfriendly to the Niger Delta and indicative of the contempt in
which the FGN holds the region”.
“It is instructive that at a time when the nation is increasingly paying lip-service to resolving the multi-
faceted issues of the region”, UNDEDSS President, Professor Pat Utomi stated, “the 2009 Budget
shows there is a conspiracy to keep the region underdeveloped and denied of justice”.
Noting that, in the 2008 budgetary allocation, the National Assembly “increased” the NDDC budget to
N84 billion, but that the money was not fully released, Professor Utomi wondered how the FGN
decided that only N27billion be budgeted to the NDDC now, “especially in the light that this is a
government that has refused to pay the outstanding money statutorily due to the NDDC, amounting to
over N300billion, even whilst claiming to champion the rule-of-law principle”.
“Even if the FGN argues that it is simultaneously funding Niger Delta development through the new
Niger Delta Ministry”, the UNDEDSS President continued, " the total N77billion allocated to both the
NDDC and the Ministry falls far short of what a serious-minded government needs to fast-track
development in the nine states of this much-cheated region that lays the golden eggs on which the whole
nation depends”.
UNDEDSS Secretary-General, Tony Ipriye Uranta, went further to demand that “since the FGN
deems it necessary for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to receive one per cent of monies accruing
to the Federal Government, the new Niger Delta ministry should, accordingly, be statutorily given not
less than five per cent to cater for nine states’ needs”, and noting that “if the President does not
drastically review these allocations upwards, the region may lose confidence in his commitment to truly
bring about speedy and sustained positive change to our peoples and environment”.
UNDEDSS demanded that President YarAdua’s administration be more sensitive and positive
towards the region, claiming that “the FGN should speedily and faithfully implement the
recommendations of the Ledum Mitee-led Technical Committee on the Niger Delta as articulated in the
Committee’s Report submitted to the President recently”, concluding by stating that “the peoples of the
Niger Delta eagerly and hopefully await government’s White Paper on the Committee’s Report before
the end of the year 2008”.