These areas stand out as huge blemish on the collective conscience of the Nigerian nation. The Niger-Delta accounted for over 85 percent of Nigeria's annual revenues for the past 50 years, but still battles stark under-development and continues to lag behind in almost every key area of development. The establishment of the Niger Delta Ministry and Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the Amnesty program have done very little to reverse this spate of under-development. 

Instead, these organizations have been plagued by allegations excessive bureaucracies, corruption and misappropriation of funds with little or no development reaching the local communities. The region, to a large extent, is still characterized by a culture of dependency. Deliberate efforts are needed to be taken to address the developmental issues the region continues to face.

What We Will Do

• Continuous Development Agenda We aim to achieve the following:
• Genuine implementation of the Niger-Delta Master Plan.
• Addressing the continued lack of infrastructure and social services in the regions.
• Taking inventory of infrastructural provisions in the different states of the region
• Aggressively pursuing and addressing the underlying structural issues that have led to the current levels of under-development of the region. 

Social Awareness Programme

This will be set up to:

• Create a high-level advocacy and awareness drive to launch the promotion of rule of law and access to justice in the region.
• Institutionalize the process of corporate social responsibility through budgetary commitment and stakeholder engagements within the region.
• Aggressively promote environmental sustainability programmes needed to address the continued degradation and pollution of the region.
• Design new systems for delivering social services in the region.

Reform Agenda

It will include:

• Relocating the Niger Delta Ministry from Abuja to the region to enable it become closer to the stakeholders and beneficiaries of the initiatives.
• Overhauling the Niger-Delta Ministry & NDDC to remove overlaps and making them more functional.
• Looking at the possibility of merging the NDDC with the Niger Delta Ministry for efficient service delivery.
• Carry out a comprehensive review and impact assessment of the Amnesty Programs to ascertain benefits to the stakeholders in the region since inception (not just politicians and contractors).