Group Alleges plot by NDDC Management, Contractors for Senate to delay Announcement Of Board Members
A Port Harcourt based socio-cultural group, Niger Delta Alliance for Economic Survival, NDAES, has alleged that some top management Staff and contractors with the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has perfected plans with some key officers of the National Assembly to frustrate the decision of the President Muhammadu Buhari to reconstitute the Board of the Commission.
It should be recalled that the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs had hinted that list of nominees for the NDDC Board had been submitted to the Senate. The Minister had assured that as soon as the Senate reconvened after their recess it would announce the list as directed by the President.
In a statement, the president of the Group, Mr. Tubonemi Chibisi said they had information that some management staff and big contractors of the NDDC have perfected plans with Acting Managing Director of the Commission to get the Senate to sit on the list of the new Board members to perpetrate the continous balkanisation of the Commission’s monthly allocation.
The statement reads in part:
“We have Information that there is a deliberate plot by the Senate to delay the announcement of the new list of the NDDC board nominees as directed by Mr President.
“We have been informed that some very big contractors in collusion with the Acting Managing Director of the NDDC, who is a civil servant, have gone to reach an agreement with some persons in the Senate to continue to share the commission monthly allocation as was done during the time of the sacked Interim Administrator ”
The contractors who have form cartel and have become notorious in the Commission are led by a particular contractor from the South Eastern part of country with a strong grip on the current leadership at the Commission.
The group further accuses the Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs of complicity in the plan to sabotage the good intentions of the Federal Government.
The group has therefore called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and other security agencies to investigate the allegation in order to save the Commission from further stealing of the commonwealth of the people by a few selfish enemies of the region.
The leadership of the group who has expressed very deep respect for the leadership of the National Assembly, the Minister of Niger Delta Niger Niger and Management of the NDDC, said they will regard the speculations as rumour untill the Senate reconvene next week to deliberate on all the correspondence from President Mohammadu Buhari to the Senate.
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