Some aggrieved ex-agitators under the auspices of Coalition of Ex-agitators of Niger Delta (CEND) have threatened to disrupt business activities in the Niger Delta, following the failure of governors in the region to provide palliatives to poor communities despite receiving N5 billion from the Federal Government.

The ex-agitators expressed concern that the governors of the Niger Delta states seemed to have diverted the money released by President Bola Tinubu, meant to alleviate the suffering occasioned by the fuel subsidy removal policy.

Speaking, the Chairman of CEND, Gen. Gershom Mpakaboari Gbobo, during a press briefing, alongside other members of the coalition, in Port Harcourt, yesterday, said whereas Tinubu was sensitive enough to make provisions for palliatives, the governors appeared unconcerned with the level of hardship in their various states, especially Bayelsa and Rivers states.

Gbobo insisted that there were no deliberate activities and programmes by the governors, targeted at providing relief to the people.

He said: “Does it mean that, as usual, these governors have pocketed the money? We will never allow it to happen. We will compel them to bring out the money in a mother of all protests across the states. It will no longer be business as usual. Our people are suffering untold hardship, while these governors are junketing in profligacy, living large without showing any concern for our problems.

“We expected the governors to have commenced deliberate programmes aimed at reaching the people with palliatives. We expected them to add a reasonable amount of money to the N5 billion and float far-reaching programmes that will practically ameliorate the pains of the people. But they are less concerned.

“We can see what the Borno State Governor is doing for his people; but our entire region is quiet.”