Youths of Delta State Oil Producing Communities, have called on High Chief Edwin Clark, National leader of PANDEF, to compel the governor of Delta State, Sheriff Oborewori to announce the annual budget of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC.
This is according to a statement by Comrade Edafe Wilfred, President Delta Youths Of Good Conscience (DYGC) on Thursday.
The group said the law establishing the commission had stipulated that 50% of the 13% derivation should be given to DESOPADEC to develop the oil producing communities, adding that opportunities for oil producing communities had constantly short-changed following the diversion of the commission’s budget.
According to the group, the Commission was administered without a budget by the immediate past governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa for six years, and that the current governor Oborewori is following the same absurdity and unconventional approach in running the commission.
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The group called on Pa Clark and other well-meaning stakeholders of the state to stop Oborewori from running the commission without budget, thereby misappropriating the 50% budgetary allocation.
The group threatened to stage a one million- man protest to expose how the commission is being ran ashore by the state government if Oborewori fails to announce the commission’s budget at the close of the ongoing budget presentation of the state parastatals and agencies.
