Project HOPE: Don’t Be Left Out, MOSIEND Begs N/Delta Youths, Commence NDDC Portal Registration Wednesday
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Edith CHUKU
As part of her support to the management team of the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, in achieving the goals of the “Project Hope” a pan Niger Delta group has announced free online registration in the NDDC portal for youths in the region.
The Movement for the Survival of the Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta MOSIEND, stated its readiness to commence the exercise in a release made available to TNN on Tuesday.
According to the foremost Niger Delta mass mobilization organization, the free registration which will commence on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, is for its members across the Niger Delta region.
MOSIEND urged youths to avail themselves for the online exercise in order not to be left out.
In the statement, the National Secretary, Mr. Amain Winston Cotterel, explained that “the online registration in the NDDC portal is not meant for only Ijaw youths, but youths of all ethnic nationalities from the nine Niger Delta states – whether Ibo, Isoko, Urhobo, Itsekiri, Ikwerre, Efik and so on. MOSIEND is willing to register all of them as long as they are from the region.
“The registration will first hold in Rivers State being the Eastern Zone of Ijaw nation, before it will be taken to Delta and Bayelsa States and the online registration exercise is expected to last one week for each of the zones.
“The registration centre for Eastern Zone is the National Secretariat at Suite 8 at no. 55 Iwofe Road, Rivers State, and the opening time is 10AM prompt every day.”
Cotterel appealed to MOSIENDIS to contact their zonal executives to get more information about the process, advising those interested in the exercise to come with their credentials and every other information about themselves.
He added that, “MOSIEND saw the imperativeness of doing the free registration for Niger Delta youths after a stakeholders’ meeting with the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, on the 7th of May, 2024 with the stakeholders led by the national chairman of PANDEF, Senator Emmanuel Ibok Essien.
“MOSIEND, as the strongest group with the largest number of youths in the region, is solidly behind the Project HOPE agenda of the commission, and ensuring that the youths avail themselves, capturing their data free of charge is the least support MOSIEND can give to the NDDC for doing a good job.
“MOSIEND is doing this advocacy and free registration of Niger Delta youths to support the management team in achieving the goals or aims and objectives of Project HOPE.”
Further, Cotterel who also spoke on the project stressed that, “The NDDC’s Project Hope is designed to capture data of skilled, unskilled and unemployed youths from the Niger Delta region in order to train and empower them to be independent.
“However, for you to partake in this project and benefit from it, you must register on the NDDC dedicated platform online, and that is why we are doing this campaign so that nobody would be left out, we desire all our youths to be productive and self-reliant and this is one way to achieve that.
“As you know, MOSIEND is a pan Niger Delta voice and we command the largest youth network in the Niger Delta, and we believe that by helping to spread this information and also doing the free registration, it will make the work easier for the NDDC, and the less unemployed youths we have in the region, the better and safer it will be for us.”
“We believe in the development of our region both infrastructure wise and in human capacity, and that is why we have used our personal funds to make this dream a reality – instead of going to cafe to pay money for the service, and in order to avoid instances of failed registration or incomplete registration, MOSIEND has employed ICT experts to do it for all Niger Delta youths free of charge.”
“No matter your political party, ethnicity or religion, as long as you are from the Niger Delta and you come to our registration centres, MOSIEND will register you free. Also help to share this information with those around you so that we can help to lift more youths from poverty.”
