The House of Representatives is also probing the bazaar, but the drama that has suffused the probe, especially the fainting spells and brickbats enacted before the public by both the minister, Godswill Akpabio, and boss of the commission, Keme Pondei..
It is doubtful whether anyone in the Niger Delta Development Commission and the Niger Delta Affairs ministry can paint an accurate picture of the contract and financial bazaar unnerving and overwhelming the two institutions.
The stalemate began when former boss of the NDDC, Joi Nunieh, crossed swords with Senator Akpabio, complete with unearthing sleazy financial deals and malfeasances, and tantalising the public with ancillary stories and allegations of a lovesick and lovelorn minister as well as a vixenish and duplicitous woman passing off as a prude.
While Nigerians were still trying to decipher just what was taken away unlawfully from the NDDC till and by whom, they were cruelly called upon to also determine who was telling the truth between the national lawmakers probing the bazaar and the ministry and commission officials called to testify before the committee of the lower house.
What is not in doubt is that a bazaar took place, and that many top Nigerians, including national lawmakers and the police, helped themselves to the soup pot almost without restraint. It is also clear that the Niger Delta has been short-changed. Both the ministry dedicated to their affairs and the NDDC were designed to ameliorate their deplorable social and economic conditions.
It is a poor reading of the problem to put the fault down solely to those appointed to manage the affairs of infrastructural development and poverty alleviation institutions, regardless of the connivance of higher-ups in every stratum and arm of government. Opportunities were, therefore, missed, and appointees were promoted and made untouchable on account of their connections and even births.
Witness, for instance, the grand conspiracy bathing Southern Kaduna in blood, and the quibbling heroics of the state’s self-righteous and cocksure governor Nasir el-Rufai. The federal government is not getting it right, so too are the states. Nigeria, put simply, does not have a raison d’être. Its core, despite plagiarising and crudely grafting the United States constitution upon itself, is hollow through and through.
The whole NDDC probe exercise is a waste of time. Why don’t they probe NNPC? It is clear now that few people in government owe Nigeria any obligation. Since the chairmanship of Mao Zedong, China has had both a keen sense of history and an even keener sense of manifest destiny.
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