[EDITORIAL] Rescue NDDC from influence peddlers
FRUSTRATION is gradually giving way to disgust and impatience among stakeholders over the never-ending crises rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission. The crises have without a doubt, hobbled the performance of the commission over the years. There is an urgent need to enthrone transparency and take a major bite out of the fraud, corruption and influence-peddling that pervade the commission.
On the other hand, the lawmakers are insisting on investigating the NDDC, which is already under the scrutiny of an interim management committee charged with overseeing an ongoing forensic audit of the corruption-riddled agency. The House of Representatives committee saddled with the investigation is accusing the IMC of mismanaging N40 billion. The lawmakers believe that NDDC’s allegations are only meant to discourage them from forging ahead with the probe.
It is a broad-based package that, if followed through, could have transformed the oil-rich area of the country. However, instead of concentrating on its important mandate, the commission has been bedevilled by massive corruption and fraud, resulting in the enrichment of individuals at the expense of the targeted area. The scale of corruption reported in the NDDC is nothing short of overwhelming.
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