Rights Group Calls On Chief Clark To Compel Oborewori to Announce DESOPADEC budget 

Rights Group Calls On Chief Clark To Compel Oborewori to Announce DESOPADEC budget 


Youths of Delta State Oil Producing Communities, have called on High Chief Edwin Clark, National leader of PANDEF, to compel the governor of Delta State, RT. Hon. Sheriff Oborewori to announce the annual budget of the state Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC.

This is according to a statement by Comrade Edafe Wilfred, President Delta Youths Of Good Conscience, DYGC, which a copy was sent to news correspondents on Thursday.

The group said the law establishing the commission had stipulated that 50% of the 13% derivation should be given to the Commission to develop the oil producing communities, adding that opportunities for oil producing communities had constanly shortchanged following the diversion of the commission's budget.

According to the group, the Commission was administered without a budget by the immediate past governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa for six years, and that the current governor Oborewori is following the same absurdity and unconventional approach in running the commission.

The group called on High Chief Pa Clark and other well-meaning stakeholders of the state to stop Oborewori from running the commission without budget and misappropriating the 50% budget of the commission.

The group threatened to stage one million- man protest to expose how the commission is being ran ashore by the current government of the state if he(governor Oborewori) failed to announce the commission's budget at the close of the ongoing budget presentation of the state parastatals and agencies.