Dalung made the comment after paying a visit to Oporoza in Gbaramatu kingdom in Delta State to meet with the militants.
“On
reaching the community after the two-hour journey on the high sea, I
met with the members of the communities who told me that their dream was
to be included in the Nigerian project, that the education facilities
and other basic social amenities are almost non-existent in the
communities. They also raised concern of incessant attacks by the
Nigerian Military,” Dalung said according to Daily Trust.
“As
a youth minister, I know there the Avengers are mostly youths who have
potentials to be great citizens of this country. The issues include the
Niger-Delta Maritime University, pipeline community policing which they
said the government had denied them, and the inability of the government
to continue with the amnesty programme established by former President
Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
“After going round
some of the communities, I noticed that government projects were almost
non-existent. I saw a secondary school signboard somewhere but the
school is yet to be developed, the community has a clinic but still at
the foundation level and a borehole that is not functional,” he added.
He also said that the avengers gave him a sealed letter to present to President Muhammadu Buhari.
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