Niger Delta Congress Begins Processes to Sign Resource Control, Self Determination Charter

The Niger Delta Congress (NDC) has kickstarted processes to actualize its demand for self-determination.

This is on the backdrop of the NDC’s insistence that oil and other natural resources be controlled by the people.

A spokesperson for the NDC, Ovunda Eni, In a statement on Tuesday, confirmed that the signing of the Niger Delta Peoples Charter will start on Monday, November 1, 2021.

This is even as the coalition of all regional bodies in the Niger Delta has called on all ethnic nationalities of the six states in the South-South to be on notice.

According to Eni, the resolution to go ahead with the charter was followed by a conference held on October 8, at the Ijaw House Complex in Yenegoa, the Bayelsa State capital.

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Eni noted that a draft copy of the Niger Delta Peoples Charter was unanimously adopted as a working document at the conference.

The NDC spokesperson also stated that the secretariat has concluded the harmonization process of all recommendations.

“It is our firm belief that this Charter will lay the foundation for the processes that will birth a new future”, Eni noted.

According to NDC, the aim of the Charter was to unite the people “towards achieving shared hopes and aspirations of resource control and self-determination”.

It called on the people of the region not to be threatened by the current rate of insecurity and other challenges facing the country.

The statement further called on Niger Deltans to prepare ahead of the arrival of the Charter in their communities, and to actively partake in the mass signing process.