Akpabio demands more funds for 'broke' NDDC | The Nation News Nigeria

Akpabio, in his keynote address during the NDDC strategic capacity building workshop in Uyo, said the funding system was poor because budgetary provisions for the commission were staggered and did not come as and when due.

“Corruption is one of the greatest problems of the Nigerian society and it also finds its ugly and devastating effects in all sectors of the polity, including the NDDC. In his welcome address, the Interim Administrator and Chief Executive Officer of the NDDC, Effiong Akwa, said the retreat was in furtherance of consultation with its stakeholders for speedy development of the region.Akwa said that the NDDC was done with its unsavoury past, stressing that continuous consultation and collaboration for effective development were the focus of the commission.

Meanwhile, coalition of nine militant groups in the Niger Delta has threatened to dump the ceasefire reached with the Federal Government and resume armed agitation over the alleged refusal by the government to stop paying 13 per cent derivation to the governors of the region. The RNDA threatened that the alleged decision by President Buhari to side with the state governors by refusing to the stop the derivation payment to them would not be tolerated any longer and it might lead to resumption of hostilities in the region.

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