Views: Visits 5 Godswill Akpabio By Chris Ochayi, ABUJA Stakeholders agitating for the constitution of the Board for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, should bury their thought as the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has insisted that the formation of a board for the Commission was not an issue for now. Senator Akpabio, whose ministry is overseeing the Commission spoke recently on the contentious issue in Abuja, where he mocked the agitators to showcase the achievements of the commission in those years passed that it had Boarded. Akpabio noted that with the fear of the forensic audit over 75 road projects have been completed under his watch and are now ready for commissioning.
Views: Visits 9 Niger Delta People’s Forum, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to listen to South-South governors and inaugurate governing board. Disclosing this in a statement sent to Vanguard, Chief Boma Ebiakpo, National Chairman, said: “Less than two months after the South-South Governors’ Forum rose from their meeting in Port Harcourt and called for the urgent inauguration of the Governing Board of NDDC, in accordance with the law, the Governor of Delta state, has again, on behalf of the Forum stated in unmistakable terms their displeasure over Federal Government’s refusal to inaugurate a substantive Board. “We commend the South-South Governors’ Forum, the authentic representatives of the people of the Niger Delta for rising to the occasion at this time of palpable tension across the region, following the refusal of the Federal Government do abide by the law and inaugurate a substantive Board.
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Federal High Court Ruling on IMC: Buhari should stop the charade at NDDC – Group
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Group known as Niger Delta Renaissance Coalition, Thursday advised President Muhammadu Buhari to follow the law and inaugurate a Governing Board for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in order to avert the looming anarchy that will befall the commission.
Disclosing this in a statement sent to Vanguard by the group’s National Chairman, Comrade Damian Nwikinaka, the group opined that “It is shameful that the lies and plots undertaken by the Niger Delta Minister in hijacking the Niger Delta Development Commission have come to a shameful denouement in two illegal heads laying claim to the headship of the agency.