AAmidst growing tension in the Niger Delta region, Nseobong Okon-Ekong recounts how the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, has serially reneged on his promised dates to conclude the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari in October 2019, thereby delaying the inauguration of a substantive NDDC Board
“So, the forensic audit of NDDC is on course and it is progressing very well and I am happy with the progress made so far. And I am very certain that by end of July which is just a month and a few weeks away the final result will be given to the president for implementation.”
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Nseobong Okon-Ekong writes that the predictable gimmick of interim management committees and forensic audit reports deployed by Senator Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs to delay inauguration of the Niger Delta Development Commission Board is about to run its course
Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs is used to having his way. As Governor of Akwa Ibom State between 2007 and 2015, things had to be done his way or no way. He ruled when the Naira was relatively strong, compared to what we have today. At the peak of his power in 2013, former Minister of Finance and now the Director General of the World Trade Organisation revealed that revenue allocation to Akwa Ibom State was far in excess of the national budgets of countries like Ghana and Liberia. Akwa Ibom State got about USD1.7 billion (N260 billion) from the Federation Account in 2013.
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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Boma Ebiakpo, National Chairman of Niger Delta Peoples’ Forum, warns that the Niger Delta region is on the verge of being engulfed in major crises instigated by the refusal of Senator Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs to inaugurate the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission
The recent demand by the Ijaw Youth Council for the inauguration of the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to run the agency in line with the NDDC Act is in order and we support it fully.
Other Stakeholders including the South-south governors, traditional rulers and youth groups have been requesting for a Governing Board to be immediately inaugurated for the NDDC in line with the NDDC Act without any further delay.