Vanguard
10 August 2011
By Rotimi Ajayi, Regional Editor
In 2009, when Elder Godsday Orubebe, Minister of Niger Affairs, spoke in Copenhagen , Denmark
I knew that the urgency behind his desire was borne out of the pressure from the militancy in the area. Orubebe knows how it feels coming from one of the Niger Delta states.
However, his passion must have made him to underestimate the extent of the work he was saddled with and the duration such work would take to be physically appreciated by the people. Unfortunately Orubebe forgot one fact: That he is a human being and not a magician.
Created in September 2008, just a year before the Minister spoke about his readiness to “hit the ground running”, the Ministry took off without any blueprint on what to do in the whole region which had been criminally neglected for over five decades by every stakeholder, especially the oil companies which have been operating in the area for years.
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