Group Laments Abandonment Of Confirmed NDDC Board Members Since 2019

Chief Ebimini stated that the President’s letter personally signed by him reads: “In accordance with the provision of Section 2 of the Niger Delta Development Commission Act, 2000, I write to forward, for confirmation by the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the under listed nominees for appointment into the NDDC board, to occupy the positions indicated against their names.”

NDTG, however, noted that after the nominees were screened and confirmed by the Nigerian Senate on the 5th of November 2019, “President Buhari asked that the inauguration of the Board should be put on hold pending the completion of the forensic audit, for which an Interim Management Committee was appointed for the NDDC.”

Surprisingly, however, according to NDTG, in another letter from President Buhari to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, which was read at plenary on November 23, 2022, “three years after the Senate had confirmed a substantive board that was put on standby,” President Buhari has appointed Lauretta Ifeanyi-Onochie from Delta State as the Chairman of the board, Chief Samuel Ogbokwu, from Bayelsa State, as the Managing Director, Major-General Charles Airhiavbere from Edo State as the and Charles...

NDTG also pointed out that in a piece entitled “New NDDC Board Puts Senate On Trial” published in Daily Trust newspaper on October 30, 2022, the paper had noted that “it would seem that the worrisome dispensation of sleaze, incongruities and patent illegality which had dominated the leadership structure of the Niger Delta Development Commission , is yet to abate.

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