N’Delta groups to Buhari: Resend NDDC nominees approved by Senate

October 24, 2022

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 By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South,  Ozioruva Aliu & Davies Iheamnachor

The 21st Century Youths of Niger Delta and Agitators with Conscience, 21st CYNDAC, and Network for Grassroots Development, NGD, have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resend to the Senate the names of the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, screened and approved since November 2019.    

Commenting on the new order in NDDC, 21st CYNDAC, in a statement by Izon Ebi, said: “President Buhari should match his words with action by resending the board already screened and confirmed by the National Assembly, made up of men of impeccable character, which he failed to inaugurate for three years with no justifiable reason.

“The sack of the erstwhile interim administrator, Mr. Effiong Akwa, was long overdue and is nothing to celebrate about. The fact is that a few months to the end of Buhari’s eight-year administration, he turned the NDDC into a cash cow to the detriment of the Niger Delta and its people.  

“If the government of Muhammadu Buhari is sincere and means well for the Niger Delta after using NDDC to pacify his political associates that betrayed the region for his emergence as the president, we urge him to proceed immediately by inaugurating the already screened and confirmed board by the Senate of the Federal