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10% Equity Grant: NDYC Lauds FG
The Niger Delta Youth Council (NDYC) has lauded President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua over the grant of 10 per cent equity in all Federal Government Assets and Businesses to Oil producing communities in the Niger Delta Region.
Speaking with newsman in Port Harcourt the president of Niger Delta Youth Council (NDYC) Chief Mike Amakiri, said that the president’s gesture shows dearly his good intention for the Niger Delta people.
Chief Amakiri, was of the view that president Yar’Adua is living up to expectation, judging from the level of achievements he has recorded in a short time.
According to him, the 10% equity grant of all Federal Government’s businesses assets to the Niger Deltan’s, proved that he is a detribalized and a visionary leader who is always ready to listen to the cry of the down-trodden and the voiceless.
The president is a man of justice, equity, fair play and a covenant keeper. He is a voice to the voiceless and father to the fatherless” – he said.
He has also called on all Niger Delta Governors not to politic with the president’s sincere gesture or see it as business , as usual in order not to kill vision of the opportunity.
The Andoni born youth leader is also calling fleeing Oil magnets and foreign investors to come and invest in the area, as the place is now safe for business activities.
Also Niger Delta is safe for Business, our “Boys” have dropped their weapons, and embrace peace, President Yar’Adua is ever ready to work with us, so all companies which have fled the area should come back and invest so that the area will be taken to the next level” his words.
Also speaking, the Vice President of the group, Comrade Chinwendu Isaac Orduwa, praised President Yar’Adua and his Vice, Goodluck Jonathan over what he described as excellent vision, saying that in no distant time Niger Della will be a bee hive or investors and tourist attraction.
Expressing believe over the Yar’Adua – led Government, Comrade Orduwa also called on the National Assembly to expedite action over the passage of the 10% equity grant bill into Law for speedy development in-line with Mr. President’s 7point Agenda and the Niger Delta Master Plan.
He also appealed ‘with Oil Producing Communities in the Niger Delta Region to see themselves as part of the Oil Companies so that a cordial relationship will be created between them for better understanding.
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