Protesting Bayelsa youths storm NDDC office in P/Harcourt

Vanguard

2 November 2011

Protesting Bayelsa youths storm NDDC office in P/Harcourt

*Demand transformers, generators for communities   

PORT HARCOURT- Youths from Egbemo-Angalabiri and Agbediama communities in Bayelsa State, yesterday, protested on the premises of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in Port Harcourt, over what they termed failure of the commission to address challenges of underdevelopment in their communities.

The no fewer than 50 youths, carried placards with inscriptions, such as NDDC give us roads, Our schools are dilapidated, No good water to drink in our communities, among others. According to them, NDDC had not executed any project in their communities since it was established.