A pressure group, Niger-Delta Youth Vanguard for All Progressive Congress (APC), yesterday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to be careful in choosing his ministers.
The group advised Buhari to be mindful of those with a mindset to loot, mostly those who recently defected to the party after his emergence as the president.
The group, in a statement, said only credible people without blemishes should be appointed into his cabinet for the purpose of accountability.
The group said: “We the Southsouth people have confidence in Mr. President and we’re pleading that every development from the Federal Government to the region should come direct to the people, as our leaders have failed us.
“In spite of the billions of naira coming to the region through Niger Delta Ministry, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), the people still drink polluted water without good road, yet some senators and House of Representatives members are making huge some from there.”
when the people are suffering seriously. NDDC is today even worse compared to NNPC.
“One other area is the Amnesty Office that was supposed to serve as means of empowering youths but today it has become some ex-militants’ oil well, especially those that were close friends to the former Special Adviser to the former president on Niger Delta Matter.
“The programme was design to empower over 50 thousand youths but difficult to see 5 per cent of the youths they claim to have empowered in a reputable company as staff while those they took abroad were denied their basic allowances.”
The group had also blamed the underdevelopment of the Niger Delta on selfish leaders.