By Emma Amaize

WARRI – YOUTHS from the nine states of the Niger Delta, under the auspices of the Niger Delta Ethnic Coalition, yesterday, called on President Goodluck Jonathan to order security agencies to investigate activities of purportedly sponsored groups, which, in the past few weeks, had mounted campaigns of calumny against the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr. Chibuzor Ugwoha.

The youths in an open letter to the President,   by their national coordinator, Mr. Ebisemi Yiki and nine others, said, “these groups want to create unnecessary tension, so that the Presidency can either sack Ugwoha or dissolve the Governing Board of the commission,  so that their sponsors/backers could be appointed as Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer or as members of a new Governing Board.”

According to the youths who expressed confidence in the NDDC management, led by Ugwoha, “some so-called former militants, transparency monitoring groups, concerned citizens and different kinds of movements, which had written frivolous and exaggerated letters against the NDDC need to be investigated”