Youth and women have benefited from the ongoing Christmas Day celebration largesse from the regional interventionist body, namely, the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
Our correspondent witnessed scores of youth and women in Calabar the state capital metropolis leaving with bags of rice and cash benefits from Egerton the distribution venue.
According to the community leader responsible for the distribution in Cross River, Otuekong (Rt. Hon.) Orok Otu Duke, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio insisted that the largesse should specifically reach youth.
C’River takes delivery of ten million worth of Rice from @NDDCOfficialNGR
Cross River state has taken delivery of ten million Naira worth of bags of rice from the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC @NegroidHaven can report. pic.twitter.com/EyzdbFIcXl
— NEGROID HAVEN (@NegroidHaven) January 19, 2022
Duke who insisted that the largesse should go round to all categories of youth, said ‘All thanks to the Honourable Minister for Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio, because he insisted that it should touch as many youth as possible. When you say this largesse is for youth, there need to make that distinction between what amnesty is… Here they misconstrue the idea of amnesty and the normal largesse meant for the youth of the state’.
Recall that the distribution of the largesse started last week in Cross River state who took delivery of ten million Naira worth of bags of rice from the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC which amounts to four hundred bags of rice out of the over a thousand bag which is pegged at thirty five million Naira worth of rice already approved.
On Sunday there will be distribution to special groups like former agitators under the auspices of Niger Delta Strike Force, Niger Delta Youth Fronts etc
