Angry Niger Delta women under the auspices of Wailing Women of Niger Delta (WWND) have given President Muhammadu Buhari a one-week ultimatum to inaugurate a substantive board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) or they will occupy the streets of the region without their cloths on.
Members of the WWND comprising of activists, opinion leaders and professionals across the nine states of the region, in a statement on Monday after a meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, lamented that the “people of the region had been taken for granted for too long while those they looked up to had let them down at various levels.”
The aggrieved Niger Delta women, accompanied by members of Integrity Friends for Truth and Peace Initiative (IFTPI) who were at the meeting to give them moral support, said the lack of a substantive board for the NDDC had further impoverished the region as they were hard hit by hardship.
The President of WWND, Oney Nwadighi, who read the communiqué at the end of the meeting, said the women were running out of patience and hence, their resolve to do something about their plight