 Contractors under the auspices of the Contractors' Association of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, protested the non-payment of over 10 years of debts by the Commission. Members of the association were sent carrying banners and chanting solidarity songs. The barricaded the gates to NDDC headquarters with canopies requesting payment and calling for the constitution of a substantive NDDC board that set the failure of government to inaugurate a board for the Commission has hindered its smooth operations and payment process. This is the height of wickedness. Even the verifications are under frauds because I don't want to talk much, because we're ever meant to pay money to do that verification, to verify that we're meant to pay money. Now you'll see if you're supposed to pay, some of us, the money is okay, the only way they can pay this money is to reduce the money. Now you have to reduce the money, okay, pay us, see, we choose, they give us a project to do. We use our money, go to bank, collect our money, we even use our houses for collateral. Now the banks are threatening us, they want to seize our houses, now come and pay us, very few. Enough is enough. What we want is that, pay the contractors, why you will not pay the contractors? You are not taking care of the people of the region, if you go to our rivers, environmental degradation everywhere, if they want this place to shut down until 2020, we are ready. We are going to cook here, we are going to dance here, we are going to play here, already we have sent people to the market, just to make sure that everybody here is being satisfied with food. Because the contractors are not Yawu boys, the contractors are not doing an illegal job, what they are doing is a legitimate job to put food on the table, that the children will go to school. It is so sad that somebody will execute a job for four years, four years not permit. Some of them are taking loans from the bank, they have seized their properties, we are not going to let the U.S. pay them to feed, to send their children to school, it is an injustice, it is wickedness. In our husbands, our brothers, our sisters, our relations, our children, they can pay their fees, if they don't pay them, we will be suffering. We are the women and whatever is affecting them negatively or positively is affecting us. And let them constitute the board, so that any disease will be shaped up and the people will benefit. The contractors vowed not to leave the premises until their demands are met.