Lawyer demands nullification of NDDC budget
In an application filed on March 11 at a Federal High Court in Abuja and seen by PREMIUM TIMES on Friday, the lawyer wants the court to determine whether the existence of the commission’s governing board is not a condition precedent for the creation of a budget document for the NDDC.
In his suit with the number, FHC/ABJ/CS/349/2020, Mr Effiong cited section 18 of the act enabling the establishment of the Niger Delta Development Commission which states that “its board shall submit through the President and Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic, a budget to the National Assembly for the next succeeding year.”
Mr Effiong asked the court to determine whether the provisions of the section mentioned above does not invalidate the submission of the budget by President, Muhammdu Buhari without the constitutional involvement of the NDDC’s governing board. He requested the court to set aside the entire process that birthed the recently approved budget of the NDDC and restrain the interim management committee set up by President Buhari from exercising what Mr Effiong described as the powers exclusively preserved for the NDDC’s governing board by its enabling act.Mr Effiong also described as unlawful, President Buhari’s inauguration of the Niger Delta development advisory committee in the absence of the governing board.
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