Opinion: Solving the Niger Delta Conundrum: the Federal Delta City Option, By Ebere Onwudiwe
The value of such a city goes beyond the provision of gainful employment. The psychological benefit should not be underestimated. I argued that the city will serve as substantive and incontrovertible proof that some of the enormous funds derived from the impoverished region are being reinvested at the source.
Not to forget, a core mandate of the Commission is to build key infrastructure to improve the diversification and productivity of the region’s economy. Given the extent of the suffering in the region, the best way to achieve this must be revolutionary, not incremental. A quick and complete turn-around, not a conservative regime of small changes is called for.
The Niger Delta question is more serious than the Lagos traffic jams and overcrowding that led to the construction of the brand new city of Abuja. What we are faced with in the Delta borders on national survival. There is, therefore, a more cogent reason to build the FDC in the Niger Delta, than we had when we built the FCT in Abuja.
My proposal was made at a high powered 2008 Newswatch Magazine Colloquium on the Niger Delta, chaired by the erudite professor of political science…Bolaji Akinyemi. After my presentation, the senator from Adamawa then, Professor Jibril M. Aminu…said that this was one of the most brilliant proposals he had heard on the Niger Delta problem.
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