President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the management of the NDDC to offset fees and stipends of its foreign scholarship beneficiaries.
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission to offset fees and stipends of its foreign scholarship beneficiaries.
Besides, he cleared the Prof Kemebradikumo Pondei-led interim management committee of the allegation of demanding between 20 and 30 per cent kickbacks from contractors. “We appeal to those who are putting their personal interests over and above that of the people of the Niger Delta to have a rethink, pull back and allow the commission the space to serve the people of the region,” he added.
President of South-South Study Group , Otoks Dan-Princewill, who made the appeal in Port Harcourt, noted that if the geo-political had jurisdiction over its resources as agreed and practised after the Lancaster Agreement prior to the imposition of a “distorted federalism on Nigeria by military adventurists”, a Joint Commission anchored on a Regional Sovereign Wealth Fund run by appointed managers to periodically spotlight strategic projects would have better served the developmental needs of...
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