Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila on Wednesday said that the Niger Delta Development Commission has failed to deliver on it’s mandate of serving as an interventionist agency about two decades after it was created by government.
According to him, the damage from fossil fuel exploration had a severely deleterious effect on the lives, livelihoods and wellbeing of the people of the region, adding that it was the intention of government that the commission will begin the long-overdue process of making good on our nation’s obligations to the people of the Niger Delta, from whose lands and waters we have for decades drawn our nation’s sustenance.
“It is therefore particularly disturbing and quite frankly, embarrassing that every other news report about the Niger Delta Development Commission seems to centre around escalating allegations of corruption and malfeasance. Giving the breakdown of the expenditure by the Commission, Tunji-Ojo said that the NDDC spent N1.3 billion on community relations, N122.9 million on condolences and N122.9 million on consultancy within the period.He said further that the commission spent N31.4 billion on COVlD-19, N486million on Duty Tour Allowances N790.9 million as impress and N1.956 billion on Lassa fever.
He however said the Interim Management Committee is expected to appear unfailingly on Thursday, July 16 before the committee.
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