By Deborah Hassan
365Daily – The Niger Delta Youth Council (NDYC) has urged the Federal Government to inaugurate a substantive Board for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
It said in a statement issued on Monday, August 16, 2021, in Abuja, by the National Coordinator of NDYC, Mr Jator Abido, that this would quash lingering issues bedeviling the Commission and region.
The group explained that the inauguration would address the issues because the substantive NDDC Board’s composition reflects the wishes of people of the entire region.
While appealing to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, to speed up the process of the forensic audit of the Commission in order for the already screened board to be inaugurated, they condemned statements credited to Chief Rita-Lori Ogbebor, which they described as ‘toxic misrepresentation of realities on ground”.
The statement read in part: “It would be recalled that the substantive Board was nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari in October 2019 and screened by the Senate shortly after their nomination.
“Hence, our unreserved call for the inauguration of the Board. In our view failure to do that insults the sensibility of well meaning people of the region and Nigerians in general.
”The inauguration of the substantive Board will no doubt open a new vista in President Buhari’s drive to take infrastructural development to every part of the the Niger Delta and the country in general.”
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