Senator Godswill Akpabio
Sen. Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, has called for improved funding for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to enhance the infrastructural development of the region.
Akpabio made the call in his keynote address during the NDDC strategic capacity building workshop on Friday in Uyo.
He said the funding system was poor because budgetary provisions for the commission were staggered and did not come as and when due.
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The minister who called for an amendment of the laws establishing the agency should the need arise, added that he was determined to leave the commission better than he met it.
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When he first arrived the Senate in 2007, Senator Smart Adeyemi won a nickname among some Senate correspondents as Man of God.
He was so described on account of his revulsion at the state of things in the polity and even in the Senate.
It was said that when senators gathered privately to discuss issues of “Ways and Means” that is, matters of welfare and Senator Adeyemi was sighted coming, that the senators would quickly change the topic of discussion.
That was generally because of the allegation that he was the one who leaked to the media, issues that senators preferred to keep private.
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