The President of Nigeria His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari has mandated the Niger Delta Development Commission to pay the stipends of stranded scholarship students.

His order was embedded in a statement titled ‘NDDC invites President Buhari to Commission Signature Project’ and signed by the NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili, on Tuesday.

According to Charles Odioi, Buhari has personally ordered the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio to carry out the process as soon as possible. The statement read:

“Under the Commission’s finance protocol, only the Executive Director (Finance) and the Executive Director (Projects) can sign for the release of funds from the commission's domiciliary accounts with the Central Bank of Nigeria.

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“With the death of Chief Etang, the remittance has to await the appointment of a new EDFA. Senator Akpabio, the Honourable Minister, said President Buhari who has been briefed on the protest by students at the Nigerian High Commission in London, has ordered that all stops be pulled to pay the students by the end of this week. We expect a new EDFA to be appointed this week. As soon as that is done, they would all be paid.”

This comes just 24 hours after the students took their grievances to the Nigeria High Commission office in London.

According to Saharareporters, the 2018 and 2019 scholars lamented that they had been abandoned by the government and left to survive in foreign countries without necessary allowance paid by the NDDC.