When accountability is dethroned, impunity and its many co-travelers take its place. With each worm that wriggles free of the NDDC`s can of worms, which currently lies open at the National Assembly, Nigerians look on in horror at what has become of ...
The conception and formation of the Niger Delta Development Commission by statute on July 12, 2000 was a rousing response to a cry for justice. In an irony that is distinctly Nigerian, it had become the norm that the region whose oil had long lubricated the ponderous and irritable wheels of the country had stared down many years of pollution and neglect.
One corruption scandal after another has dotted the footsteps of the commission since its inception as the Nigerian cankerworm of corruption has burrowed deep into it, showing a cunning fecundity in the process. Nigerians are collectively horrified that in times when the coronavirus pandemic has reduced the livelihoods of many to ruinous rubbles, humongous amounts cannot be accounted for by those running the commission.
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