Milland Dikio, the interim administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), said the Niger Delta people are not taking good advantage of opportunities in the region to grow successful businesses.

Mr Dikio, in a statement by his media adviser, Nneotabase Egbe, said if stakeholders looked inwards and tapped the unique natural endowments in Niger Delta, the region would produce new wealthy entrepreneurs.

“One of the first instructions God gave is ‘go and multiply, dominate’. “Are you dominating this riverine environment? Why will you be thinking about other parts when the one God gave you, you have not dominated it? How many roads can you build?” he explained.

Mr Dikio expressed regrets that people often focused on the risk factors, discouraged themselves from starting and, in the process, allowed lofty ideas to die.  

“Our people live in creeks unconnected by road, but God has given us roads, the rivers are our roads, and for those who don’t know, many great powers are maritime powers,” he noted. “The waterways can carry any load, any load at all, it can carry it. The waterways of the Niger Delta are full of money, but people don’t know. Stop making excuses and just take the initiative.” 

Mr Dikio urged Niger Deltans to adjust and dominate their environment.

He advised them to pull their resources together to pursue and actualise their business dreams. 

“I will do everything within my power to promote this initiative. Already, I have started. I urge you to go public to spread the generational wealth,” he said.

(NAN)