“We thus urge members of the National Assembly to be true patriots, and not accommodate partisan considerations in this probe, because the hope of the people of the Niger Delta region and indeed Nigerians, for an improved NDDC, is at stake.”
The Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF has commended the decision of the leadership of the National Assembly to investigate allegations of mismanagement of funds in the Niger Delta Development Commission,, and appealed to them not to allow persons with vested interests compromise the probe.
“The probes would help determine the validity or otherwise of the assertions, and save the people of the Region from the anguish of the humiliation. “We thus urge members of the National Assembly to be true patriots, and not accommodate partisan considerations in this probe, because the hope of the people of the Niger Delta region and indeed Nigerians, for an improved NDDC, is at stake” Nkanga noted that stakeholders of the region were concerned over the developments at the NDDC, and even Mr President’s reported extension of the period of the Interim Management Committee to December 2020 despite the allegations.
“We had hoped that the forensic audit would expose and bring to book those behind the cacodemon of corruption in the NDDC and that it would instill financial propriety in the management of the Commission, correct years of underperformance, and subsequently, reposition the interventionist agency for better service delivery to the region.
The PANDEF chairman who lamented the non-performance, poor management, misapplication and misappropriation of resources, reckless perversion of set objectives of the NDDC, while abandoned projects litter the region.
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