Group calls for NDDC’s dissolution

President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to dissolve the leadership of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), for alleged failure to carry out the its mandate. It admonished the Niger Delta Avengers who threatened to resume hostilities to have a change of focus and pursue peace.

The group, ‘Pandleaf’, said the headship of the commission was rotatory, pointing out that the tenure of the board would end in December and any attempt to reappoint or renew their tenure would be resisted.

In a statement by its National President, Richard Akinaka; Secretary, Ubok-Obong Umoh and Spokesman, Comrade Success Jack, the group decried the failure of political leaders in the Niger Delta to work cohesively for development and pressed for pursuit of common interest by all stakeholders.

It reads: “We vehemently reject the recent tenure renewal for the current board of the NDDC since it constitutes a conventional aberration, highly insensitive, very inciting and capable of breaching the peace currently enjoyed in the region.  We hereby call on President Muhammadu Buhari to dissolve the current board and reconstitute a new one with respect to rotational consideration at the end of the current tenure in December 2017. It should be made clear that would stop at nothing to fiercely and firmly resist this anomaly, if not reversed.

“We condemn in totality the unhealthy political rivalry between political leaders in our States; it has reached alarming and embarrassing levels which has adversely affected us as a region. We urge them to redirect this energy and focus to form synergies in advancing a common regional political, economic and social agenda. They should not forget in a hurry that their actions and inactions today, form the legacies for which posterity would remember them.

“We also call on State Governments and Federal intervention agencies to take all necessary measures aimed at improving the lives of our people in regards to projects especially on matters incidental to road infrastructures. State governments and federal intervention agencies should embark on road construction irrespective of and without prejudice to whether it is a State or Federal road.

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