NDDC SAGA: Akpabio has failed us, N’Delta stakeholders tell Buhari vanguardnews
Former Military Administrator of Akwa Ibom and National Chairman, Pan Niger-Delta Forum, PANDEF, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga said he was interested in the quick completion of the probe of NDDC by the National Assembly.
“Once this is done, the Federal Government should monitor their spending and regulate the award of contracts in the commission. Mr. President should do the needful now. In the meantime, we call on the federal government to immediately pay all arrears of the shortfall of the payment of 10 percent instead of 15 percent as directed by Section 14 to the Commission.
“Going further, the Minister and the Interim Management Committee, IMC, have this habit of trivializing very important issues of allegations of corruption leveled against them. Instead of addressing the issues of financial improprieties, they take pleasure in name calling. “Akpabio failed definitively with his handling of affairs in the NDDC. The NDDC is in the midst of one of the worst governing failures in its history. The intervention has become terrible and his lawlessness cannot be left unnoticed for too long. He has brought too many embarrassments to the President, therefore, Akpabio should quit,” he said.Chancellor, International Society for Social Justice and Human Rights, ISSJHR, Dr.
“Unfortunately, the people of the region have been so docile and refused to take ownership of the commission. A situation where a contractor comes to your community, executes shabby job and goes home without been questioned by the community tells how unprepared and unpatriotic we have been. “I am certainly frustrated and disappointed that billions of naira are being frittered away while the core mission of the commission is unattended to. Genuine contractors are being owed why someone can boastfully say that as acting managing director, she paid N23 billion for yellow fever. My God, N23 billion for non-existing yellow fever that was not budgeted for.
“The appointment of lead consultant for the forensic audit should be reviewed immediately and an audit firm with pedigree engaged. Then a proper NDDC board be inaugurated according to the Establishment Act.”Ijaw leader and environmental crusader, Chief Oyinfie Jonjon, asserted: ”The NDDC corruption problems are beyond human imagination.
“My frustrations is the level of corruption at the commission, they should be investigated and the funds recovered and put into what it was originally meant for .The board should be constituted to create the channel of communication and make it easier for states to access their commissioner.
“But the unfortunate thing is that we, from the south- south, like shooting ourselves on the foot and at the end of everything we will start saying that the northerners are sidelining us. I am of the view that politicians from the south- south see the NDDC as a means of making money for their subsequent elections. They do not have the interest of the masses at heart.
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