Niger Delta Forum begins legal process for Self-Determination
Asaba_____ The Forum for Ethnic Nationalities of Niger Delta says it has begun legal process for the actualisation of self-reliance, saying that the law by which the region was conscripted into, forced contraption in Nigeria had long elapsed.
The region lamented that the three per cent allocated to host communities from the operating cost of the oil companies, grazing reserves among others laws/bill were act of internal colonisation against the region.
The convener of the forum, Kester Tawari, who spoke in Asaba, said, “FENND is a coalition of ethnic nationalities of the Niger Delta region, bonded together by common interest against all forms of injustice, oppression, internal colonisation and hegemonic tendencies of the Nigeria state.
“We are pleased to announce the successful hosting of our second summit, which was held on Saturday, August 14, 2021 in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, where far-reaching decisions were taken on PIA, grazing reserves, the obnoxious national water resources bill, among others.
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