Daily Champion (Lagos)
5 September 2008
The Federal Government yesterday made good its earlier promise to constitute a high powered committee that would replace the abandoned Professor Ibrahim Gambari led Steering Committee for the defunct Niger -Delta Summit, with the setting up of a 40 man committee.
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The name of Kalu and most of the cmte members seem like recycling the same old govt officials from the corrupt administrations of yesteryears whose collective decisions led to the current crisis - more or less putting old wine in new bottles hoping that the old wine will taste great until you sip it. This is yet another subterfuge to gloss over the real issue that in the long run will not benefit the real people but a few elites, as usual. I cannot foresee anything good coming out of this talk shop other than talks that lead to another deadend - just postponing the inevitable if this administration do not allow the people to pick & chose their own representatives to the event. The people cannot claim ownership of the outcome of the event because party A (govt) picked the reps of Party B (Deltans) in a dispute between party A and party B -who is fooling who here - govt thinks the people are stupid. Si?