By Tare Youdeowei

Warri—Mr. Emmanuel Okotie-Eboh, has blamed the unabated crisis in the Niger Delta region on alleged failure of developmental agencies and called for their reorganisation.

Emmanuel, a prominent farmer in Delta State, said that the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC,  Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and  Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, have failed to achieve the aim for which they were established.

“All these bodies have failed the people, hence we have crisis in all parts of Niger Delta region,” he said in Warri in an interview and called for their reorganisation to meet the set target.

According to him, the decentralization of NDDC and DESOPADEC would give the people more peace in the troubled Niger Delta region.

“To me, these developmental agencies such as NDDC, DESOPADEC and even the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs have failed all of us and I am calling for their total overhaul to meet the expectations of the people. All their actions have shown that they have failed the people. Government may not necessarily scrap them but they should be reorganised in such a way that their impact would be felt by the people unlike what we have at the moment,” he said.