Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Chief Edwin Clark, has asked the federal government to, as a matter of urgency, constitute a negotiation team to engage in talks with region’s stakeholders before August 1.
The Ijaw national leader warned that youths of the region were becoming impatient over delay in the talks.
He decried the pace of work at the Maritime University, Okerekoko, Delta State, which Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, had hinted would soon take off.
Clark said: “They said the school will resume this year, July is almost ending, when will the staff be employed, what is the situation?
“We cannot be in a situation where the Federal Government is not listening to us, our boys will soon lose confidence in us and we cannot carry on with that situation. So we are asking the acting president to open discussion with us.”
Meanwhile, an environmental activist from the Niger Delta, Annkio Briggs, has lamented current system in Nigeria, saying the North was highly favoured in scheme of arrangement.
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