Group backs South-South Governors, calls for inauguration of NDDC board
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Following the demand from South-South Governors that President Muhammadu Buhari should place all funds accruing to Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, with the exception of salaries, in an escrow account until he (Buhari) inaugurated a board in accordance with the Act establishing the interventionist agency, group known as Niger Delta Renaissance Coalition, Tuesday threw its weight behind them, calling for the inauguration of NDDC board.
In a statement signed by Comrade Damian Nwikinaka, National Chairman, the group said: “We are in full agreement with the demands of the Governors of the South-South States for the immediate inauguration of the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to run the agency in line with the NDDC Act.
By Godknows Sotonye
The piece credited to one Etim Etim and published in one of the mainstream media of Tuesday December 29, 2020, under the headline, ‘NDDC: Let’s Give Akwa A Chance’ in response to the paper’s principled editorial questioning the appointment of Mr Effiong Okon Akwa as sole administrator of the NDDC is replete with lies, half truths and innuendos.
It is at best another PR job by a man who clearly identifies himself as a public relations practitioner, the journalist bit a clear design to put a veneer of rationality in his PR treatise for Mr Effiong Akwa and the minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godswill Akpabio.