Following sustained agitation and militancy in the Niger Delta region, which remained unabated even after the judicial murder of writer and environmental activist, Mr. Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995 and after the inception of the current democratic dispensation five years later, President Olusegun Obasanjo, on June 5, 2000 inaugurated the first board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Obasanjo appointed his senior special adviser on communication, Mr. Onyema Ugochukwu as the commission’s first executive chairman.
Only last week, 19 years after Ugochukwu, President Muhammadu Buhari was forced to appoint a sole administrator to head the commission on an interim basis. He is Mr. Effiong Okon Akwa, who was until his recent appointment the Acting Executive Director (Finance and Administration) of the commission. Countless litigations and counter-litigations and corruption of the current interim board were cited for the appointment as announced by
NDDC: N’Delta monarch attacks Akpabio, accuses him of misleading Buhari
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By Emma Amaize
FORMER National Executive Chairman, Traditional Rulers of Oil Minerals Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, HM (Dr.) Charles Ayemi-Botu, aka Lion of the Niger, Tuesday, lashed out at the Minister of Niger Delta Affair, Obong Godswill Akpabio, saying he was bamboozling President Muhammadu Buhari to destroy the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
HM Ayemi-Botu, who is the paramount ruler of Seimbiri Kingdom in Delta State, told Vanguard: ”Exactly a year ago, President Buhari was misled by the Minister of Niger Delta, Senator Godswill Akpabio to jettison the new board of the NDDC that was screened by Senate and pending inauguration.”
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Following sustained agitation and militancy in the Niger Delta region, which remained unabated even after the judicial murder of writer and environmental activist, Mr. Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995 and after the inception of the current democratic dispensation five years later, President Olusegun Obasanjo, on June 5, 2000 inaugurated the first board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Obasanjo appointed his senior special adviser on communication, Mr. Onyema Ugochukwu as the commission’s first executive chairman.
Only last week, 19 years after Ugochukwu, President Muhammadu Buhari was forced to appoint a sole administrator to head the commission on an interim basis. He is Mr. Effiong Okon Akwa, who was until his recent appointment the Acting Executive Director (Finance and Administration) of the commission. Countless litigations and counter-litigations and corruption of the current interim board were cited for the appointment as announced by
Buhari sacks NDDC boss Pondei, appoints Effiong Okon Akwa
By Brangyet Kabien
President Muhammadu Buhari has removed the acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), professor Kemebradikumo Daniel Pondei and approved the appointment of an interim administrator to oversee the affairs of the NDDC.
Mr Effiong Okon Akwa, the acting Executive Director, Finance and Administration of the Commission, is to assume headship till completion of the forensic audit.
Special Adviser to the Media on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, in a statement on Saturday, said the development became necessary as a result of plethora of litigation and a restraining order issued recently against the Interim Management Committee of the NDDC by a Federal High Court in Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed an interim administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr Effiong Akwa, spokesman Femi Adesina said on Saturday.
Mr Akwa is the Commission’s Acting Executive Director, Finance and Administration.
He is expected to assume leadership of the NDDC until the completion of the forensic audit ordered by the President.
President Buhari approves interim administrator for the NDDC
He is Mr Effiong Okon Akwa, the Ag. Executive Director, Finance and Administration of the Commission, who is to assume headship till completion of the forensic audit.
Buhari ordered a forensic audit of the NDDC in October 2019 following persistent allegations of financial misappropriation within the development agency.