Signing of Niger Delta charter on resource control, self-determination set for November 1 – NDC

By Kalu Onyemaechi

The Niger Delta Congress (NDC) has confirmed that the signing of the Niger Delta Peoples Charter will begin on Monday November 1, 2021.

The NDC is persisting with its demand for self-determination and insisting that oil and other natural resources be controlled by the people of the region.

Ovunda Eni, the spokesman of NDC, made the announcement in a statement on Tuesday, putting all the ethnic nationalities of the six states in the South-South on notice.

Eni recalled the conference held on October 8 at the Ijaw House Complex in Yenegoa, the Bayelsa capital.

He explained that the draft copy of the Niger Delta Peoples Charter was unanimously adopted as a working document.

The NDC has now concluded the harmonisation process of all recommendations forwarded to the secretariat.

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

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

The body charged the people not to be fazed by insecurity and other challenges in Nigeria.

The statement asked the peoples of the Niger Delta to anticipate the arrival of the Charter in their communities and actively take part in the mass signing.