Unending squabbles: NDDC in the eyes of the storm again - Punch Newspapers

takes a look at the tension in the Niger Delta over the non-constitution of a substantive board for the Niger Delta Development Commission and the grievances of Ijaw youths and major stakeholders in the region

Under this arrangement each of the nine states was to be represented on the board of the commission, while state offices would be established. But there is no gainsaying the fact that things have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous under the latest arrangement with issues of corruption on the front burner, a scenario that resulted in the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari to order a forensic audit from 2000 when the federal agency was established to date.

While the deadline approached, Igifa raised the stakes at the annual Boro Day celebration in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, when he gave the International Oil Companies seven days to evacuate their workers from all oil installations in the region. On Wednesday May 26, 2021, the ijaw youths came out en masse and shut the Bayelsa State office of the NDDC before proceeding to block the Mbiama end of the East-West Road, signalling the beginning of the mass action.

The IYC boss gave life to his resolve in a statement in Port Harcourt, where he declared that the ongoing #OccupyNigerDelta protest, which according to him is beyond anybody’s personal interest, would continue.

Buhari's utterances yesterday in LAGOS on security is as described by Shakespeare in Macbeth: 'A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing'.

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