The Ndokwa Association in America has called on the Federal, as well as the Delta State Government to take all necessary steps to immediately step-down power (electricity) from Okpai Independent Power Plant (IPP) to ensure the provision of electricity to all communities in the three local government areas that make the Ndokwa nation.
These are Ndokwa West Local Government Area with headquarters at Kwale, Ndokwa East Local Government Area with headquarters at Aboh and Ukwuani Local Government Area with
headquarters at Obiaruku.
The Association, in a communique following its recently concluded 2025 Biennial National Convention in Bloomington, Minnesota, laments the present state of underdevelopment
in Ndokwa nation characterized by a lack of basic social amenities such as electricity, a poor and underfunded school system, near-zero public health institutions, and endemic lack of clean portable water, youth unemployment, unpassable bad roads and general poverty plaguing Ndokwa communities.
The convention focused on the recent peaceful protest of Ndokwa sons and daughters in Kwale demanding that the government “Light Up” Ndokwaland by making electricity available to Ndokwa communities and observed with shocked but not surprised by the hostile response by the government to the peaceful protest saying.
According to the communique, “The Delta State Government and the Ndokwa Local Governments’ hostile response is the story of the long history of neglect and marginalization of Ndokwaland by successive Nigeria government even though Ndokwa nation contributes a significant portion Nigeria’s oil and gas wealth and about 450 megawatts of electricity to the national grid from the Okpai IPP.”
The NAIA communique observed how ironic that the peace loving Ndokwa people, contributing to Nigeria’s oil production, power generation over the years is left to wallow in darkness and its qualified son’s and daughters given no place of employment in Nigeria’s thriving Oil & Gas sectors of the economy.
“We continue to be good host communities to
both local and multinational oil and gas facilities, but what do we get but environmental
degradation, unemployment, poverty and disease”, the communique said.
Accordingly, the convention in the communique signed by all its principal officers, Mr. Enefazu Otuya, president; Mr. Chibuzor Uwadione, immediate past national president; Mr. Jude Ulogo, national vice president; Professor Sunday Enubuzor, national secretary; Mr. Uche Ngbame, immediate past national secretary; Mrs. Eunice Pen-Ogbolu, national Public Relations Officer (PRO); Chief Sam Enudi, New York chapter president; Mrs. Cynthia Obiofuma, Houston chapter president; Mr. Daniel Opene, Atlanta Chapter president; Engr.
Chukwudi Ndego, chapter president; Chief Dennis Isicheli, chapter president; Mr. Sunday
Aremu, chapter president; Mr. Chuks Nwabuwe, chapter president and Mr. Kenneth
Chukwuma, chapter president, make the following demands:
1. The Federal Government of Nigeria and the Delta State government should take all necessary steps to immediately order a step down of the Okpai Independent Power Plant (IPP) and ensure the provision of electricity to all Ndokwaland, without any further delay.
2. We call on the Delta State Government to provide access to portable water to all Ndokwaland. Recognizing clean water as a fundamental public health necessity, the NAIA urges the government to immediately prioritize the provision of portable water.
3. We call on the Delta State Government to provide good and functioning public healthcare system in Ndokwaland. The lack of public healthcare in Ndokwa is already at a critical crisis point, with no hospital or community health centers in most Ndokwa towns and villages, resulting in preventable deaths, pains and misery.
We urge the Governor of Delta State to intervene immediately, as a matter of utmost urgency and emergency.
4. We call on all Ndokwa sons and daughters, and organizations to join hands with NAIA to ensure that these minimal demands are pursued and realized for the betterment of the Ndokwa people.
The communique restates the Association’s offer to work, collaborate, engage and cooperate with any group and government agency in towards the realization of its demands.
