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All the principal officers of the University, colleagues, distinguished ladies and gentlemen.
I wish to thank you immensely for giving me the opportunity to join and share this important 22nd Founder’s Day with you. I am here at a very significant time for our country and for Africa. What we choose to make of the challenges and as well, opportunities presented, will be critical for the development of Africa and our dear country.
COVID-19 has more than wreaked havoc on all areas of society. Lives have been lost untimely. Businesses and otherwise thriving families put in disarray. Besides the grief visited on individuals and communities, the plague has had huge negative impact on Africa’s health and food systems. We were largely unprepared and our lack of resilience severely tested and exposed our capacity for autonomous response in stark relief. Nigeria depends too dangerously on others for basic needs.
nddcIn the last few years, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has not had good ink in the media. It has been one scandal after another, garnished with rib-cracking drama. When the National Assembly invited the last Interim Managing Director, Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei for some house-keeping investigation there was drama when the man fainted in the midst of the uncomfortable grilling and the session came to an abrupt end as he was rushed out to a health facility for resuscitation. It was also during the search by the National Assembly members for accountable governance from NDDC officials that we learned some original Nigerian English, “off the mike”, meaning “switch off the microphone”. But before this time the Niger Delta Affairs Minister Senator Godswill Akpabio had duly informed us that an embattled female official of the Commission who had made a relatively unprintable accusation against him had had, as he learned, four husbands.