Following rumours that the present board of the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC will be dissolved soon after Muhammadu Buhari takes over as President, the re has been divergent views from various quarters as to the good of such dissolution on the people and its developmental aspirations. This comes also as a group
the Association of Niger Delta Professionals has raised the alarm
over alleged plans by some unnamed political office holders to cause the
dissolution of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC’s) Board as
presently constituted under Barr Bassey Dan Abia and replace it with
their stooges.
At a press conference in Abuja yesterday addressed by Barr Osi
Olisah, the group said “certain persons” especially one of the outgoing
governors from Niger Delta zone, had resorted to using his new found
relationship with the president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, to
effect the dissolution.
“We are aware that he has already procured some youths from Niger Delta especially Akwa Ibom State among other states to organise a protest against the NDDC Board. We are also aware that they have sponsored some elements who have already filed suit to compel the EFCC to investigate the management and board of NDDC on false allegations.
“These elements are busy lobbying other APC elements to ensure that the incumbent NDDC board is dissolved so that they may replace the board with their stooges and cronies.
“We are therefore, using this medium to call the attention of all Niger Delta indigenes, Nigerians and the international community to note this satanic plot by our so called leaders,” he said.
But the Niger Delta Congress For Transparent Governance has said the incoming President will be seen to be supporting the corruption that has enveloped the NDDC if it allows the board to stay more than a day. The group in a press statement signed by its media director Adams Abel Tikili said the present board is the most corrupt board which must be dissolved and seriously probed by the incoming administration. It said that nobody should arm twist the incoming President into believing that the region will be in crisis if the board was dissolved. It said if such statements are made then it goes a long way to prove critics of the present board right that the board has become a conduit pipe to fund militants in the region to the detriment of the generality of the people of the Niger Delta. The NDCFTG said it has evidence to prove that militants are given money by a ranking officer in the NDDC in order to avoid embarrassments from the boys who are usually discarded by their leaders. The group said such evil practice by the board and its agents are what might lead to "disruption of peace in the region and not the dissolution of the board which is viewed at as corrupt, political and clueless"
“We are aware that he has already procured some youths from Niger Delta especially Akwa Ibom State among other states to organise a protest against the NDDC Board. We are also aware that they have sponsored some elements who have already filed suit to compel the EFCC to investigate the management and board of NDDC on false allegations.
“These elements are busy lobbying other APC elements to ensure that the incumbent NDDC board is dissolved so that they may replace the board with their stooges and cronies.
“We are therefore, using this medium to call the attention of all Niger Delta indigenes, Nigerians and the international community to note this satanic plot by our so called leaders,” he said.
But the Niger Delta Congress For Transparent Governance has said the incoming President will be seen to be supporting the corruption that has enveloped the NDDC if it allows the board to stay more than a day. The group in a press statement signed by its media director Adams Abel Tikili said the present board is the most corrupt board which must be dissolved and seriously probed by the incoming administration. It said that nobody should arm twist the incoming President into believing that the region will be in crisis if the board was dissolved. It said if such statements are made then it goes a long way to prove critics of the present board right that the board has become a conduit pipe to fund militants in the region to the detriment of the generality of the people of the Niger Delta. The NDCFTG said it has evidence to prove that militants are given money by a ranking officer in the NDDC in order to avoid embarrassments from the boys who are usually discarded by their leaders. The group said such evil practice by the board and its agents are what might lead to "disruption of peace in the region and not the dissolution of the board which is viewed at as corrupt, political and clueless"
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