The Niger Delta States of Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Delta and Bayelsa despite getting huge amounts as derivation fund from the federation account for many years – higher than all other states in Nigeria, are plagued by rural poverty so unprecedented, suffers from unimaginable environmental degradation, social services are almost absent, educational structures in the rural areas are appalling, and many ills that space will not permit.
President Buhari needs to reinvent government for development in Nigeria. He needs to get on the bully pulpit to tell the Nigerian people what his visions are, so they can begin to catch the bug, to abandon his non-alignment policy with the national assembly and quickly get them to understand these vision and, strongly afterwards, communicate same to civil servants and managers of public institutions: emphasis is on the NDDC in this piece.
It is time the Buhari administration began to make the NDDC run like a private entrepreneurial establishment that must be gauged on performance and not an institution set up to propitiate a region which enriches a few. It was General George S. Patton who said in 1944 that, “never tell people how to do things, tell them what you want them to achieve and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
Merit should form the basis for the selection of the new board, people the president must not know and, whose integrity and track record will win them same jobs. Professionals who could always been counted on to be truthful; to give the good oil to their constituents and who must be mandated to send in verifiable accomplishments of deliverables monthly.
It is hoped- that the new NDDC will promote corporate governance, empower persons in the Oil bearing communities of the Niger Delta that were supposed to be the beneficiaries of the oil revenue allocations instead of a handful of persons.Even though leadership lead should be provided by all people, experience has shown that good people are easily corrupted in a bad system that are peopled by corrupt management.
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