mrvitalis:

Shut up ...the money is there money , let their brothers eat it ...maybe if we leave their oil money they can eat 50% and use 50% to work ... instead of this 25% they are getting

If I were the chief judge presiding over this case and you happen to be a part of this insipid show being displayed by the NDDC, coupled with your comment today as hard fact, you'll be beheaded at noon today.

Before this probe and the revelations that it entails, I have always said the development of Niger Delta people is mar by the Niger Deltans elite and govt.

for crying out loud, you have the largest revenue allocations, the 13% derivatives from oil, the NDDC, the Ministry of Niger Delta and the Amnesty program.

they have no excuse not to develop that place like the rest of host cities of oil reserved all over the world.

the uneducated youth languishing in poverty are used as a tool to siphon funds meant to break them out of poverty.

Go to that region and all you see outside the city capital is poverty of the body and the mind.

mrvitalis:

But the gold money in the north is used well right ? Give Niger Delta their oil money and let them be

You keep making the same mistake. Where is the money in the north being spent? It's not about who makes the money, it's about where it circulates and the people involved in the process. Idle cash in the bank is not wealth. Wealth is money in motion. Who are the beneficiaries of the motion and what are they doing with the proceeds? The reason Nigeria is poor is not because there is no wealth, it is because the circulation is inefficient. Have you been following the NDCC carnival on TV? The massive looting of the NDCC is enough to turn the region to Dubai. But when the kidnappers there strike they kidnap none indigenes

I hate tribalism. We have been practising it since 1951 and we are no better. Let us stop fighting the failed war of our ancestors and think with intelligence.

I am really trying to make this simple.

BreconHills:


You keep making the same mistake. Where is the money in the north being spent? It's not about who makes the money, it's about where it circulates and the people involved in the process. Idle cash in the bank is not wealth. Wealth is money in motion. Who are the beneficiaries of the motion and what are they doing with the proceeds? The reason Nigeria is poor is not because there is no wealth, it is because the circulation is inefficient. Have you been following the NDCC carnival on TV? The massive looting of the NDCC is enough to turn the region to Dubai. But when the kidnappers there strike they kidnap none indigenes

I hate tribalism. We have been practising it since 1951 and we are no better. Let us stop fighting the failed war of our ancestors and think with intelligence.

I am really trying to make this simple.

Turn the region to Dubai ? ..u guys are just funny ...what's 85 billion naira that we won't hear word about

The main corruption is in the oil rigs were oil is pump and the volumed is recorded as far lass

Leave Niger deltans to face their issue

Because most of the people's political, traditional, social and moral representatives are bebeficiaries of the corruption

Golan007:


Shatap.

I'm from the Niger Delta, itsekiri to be precise and you cannot tell me the money is for the criminals amongst us.

We need roads, water and hospitals of modern standard.

I don't know why you Yeebos would be promoting in another man's land what you would not tolerate.

Lol... We told Igbos that SS are wiser but they will never believe us.

I am so ashamed of my Niger Deltan politicians for bringing ridicule to the region but more ashamed of Magu the EFCC chairman

WarriFirstSon:

If I were the chief judge presiding over this case and you happen to be a part of this insipid show being displayed by the NDDC, coupled with your comment today as hard fact, you'll be beheaded at noon today.

What is my business , I'm from imo state ...there should be nothing like NDDC from day one of we didn't take their oil give them their oil and let them sort themselves out

North appoint their boys in nddc , set them up to fail them blame Niger Delta

TruthinAction:
I think the most important issue now should be the way forward. There must be a complete restructuring. The Niger Delta people must know what goes on from this time henceforth on a monthly basis. Information such as:

1. The Budget must be made public and pass in good time.
2. Contracts awarded must be made public and the amount involved.
3. Progress reports must be made public from time to time.
4. Amount spent on recurrent expenditure must also be made public.
5. Revenue generated must also be made public.

In addition, no contract should be awarded to anyone not a Niger Deltan.

I strongly suggest Joy Nunieh should be reinstated and Akpabio moved to another ministry.

Reinstated how

mrvitalis:

But the gold money in the north is used well right ? Give Niger Delta their oil money and let them be

If you have a lil shame left in you, you should retire this moniker today. Jeez! even with all the people showing how dumb the comment you made is, you're still trying to defend it. Anyway, like Spader (Raymond Red REddington) said in the series "The Blacklist": In the world of the mad, only the madmen are sane.
The analogy of your assertion is that it doesn't matter if a child is killed by his parent but it's only a crime if anybody else does the crime. If this is the way you think, you need the medic.

mrvitalis:

U people are the dumb ones ..north is trying to remove your mind from resource control and u are falling for it

They appoint their boys in NDDC , set them up to fail and make it seem as if Niger Delta can't manage their resources so no body would take them Serious if they cry

It's a simple game u all fell for it

It's now clear it's not a matter of 'IF' but this is exactly who you are; exactly your mindset, exactly the level of your IQ. In that case, you badly need a medic. You need psychological evaluation badly.

SpecialAdviser:
God bless you OP.
Most of them freedom fighters are scammers.

Only Nnamdi KANU stands out.

That's because you don't know the genesis of the movement.

Go and find out what happened to all the original members and who decided to become the sole signatory of all the accounts.

Hmmmmmmmmm!

PHAYOL81:


If you have a lil shame left in you, you should retire this moniker today. Jeez! even with all the people showing how dumb the comment you made is, you're still trying to defend it. Anyway, like Spader (Raymond Red REddington) said in the series "The Blacklist": In the world of the mad, only the madmen are sane.
The analogy of your assertion is that it doesn't matter if matter if a child is killed by his parent but it's only a crime if anybody is does the crime. If this is the way you think, you need the medic.

U people are the dumb ones ..north is trying to remove your mind from resource control and u are falling for it

They appoint their boys in NDDC , set them up to fail and make it seem as if Niger Delta can't manage their resources so no body would take them Serious if they cry

It's a simple game u all fell for it

There is more to this NDDC drama, the Niger Delta people are no longer political naive as they were in the past.

This does not mean that evil is supported but let us see how far this drama will go.

Is the NDDC corruption bazaar not a cause to undertake a peaceful citizen action for? Or do the avengers only avenge when it involves a certain Sani, Musa, Taiwo or Nnamdi?


They only avenges whenever they hear Nnamdi kanu...


Not really my business...If they like let them loot the money to benin republic and build university there...all na nde Ohi not avengers.



The only time avenger avenges is only when they hear Kanu...

Edwin Clark will begin to make noise like parrot..

All are criminals...from A-Z are all nde Ohi..

Getsaved:
OPINION : Fredrick Nwabufo: Asari Dokubo, Edwin Clark, ND Avengers; why no outrage over iniquity at NDDC?

There is no executive or administrative corruption without civil partnerships. What we often see on the surface as corruption in government agencies is deeply tap-rooted — with connectors to social crusaders, polemists, activists and civic groups. Corruption in Nigeria has a long value chain.

The probe of the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) over serious allegations of corruption by the national assembly is two peas in a pod. The NDDC is like a cookie jar, those probing and those under probe all have their hands stuck in it.

Last Thursday, Kemebradikumo Pondei, acting managing director of the NDDC, stormed out of a session with the house of representatives panel investigating the agency. He accused Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, chairman of the house committee on NDDC, of complicity in the fraud at the commission. He said the committee chairman cannot sit in judgment on a case in which he is a suspect.

A similar spectacle played out at the senate a few weeks ago. The NDDC management and Godswill Akpabio, minister of Niger Delta affairs, as a coterie, traded recriminations with the senate committee probing the agency for alleged N81.5 billion fraud.

Peter Nwaoboshi, chairman of the senate committee on NDDC, accused Akpabio of commandeering a N300 million fencing contract from the commission. The minister, not to be out-shamed, accused the senator of expropriating a N3.6 billion contract using 11 phony companies.

Do you think anything worth the time of Nigerians – beyond the entertainment value of the live sessions – can fall out of these probes? I do not think so. I have witnessed enough probes by the national assembly over the years — even with all the theatrics and fireworks – to predict how these ones will taper out.

Now, this is the crux of the probes. The probes are essentially about deal-brokering. The audit of the operations of the NDDC from 2001 and 2019 will bring to the fore lots of interred skeletons involving those at the national assembly and those at the composite quarters of national corruption. Though I believe the process of the audit is already tainted, it must go on.

So, it is a convenient tactic to hold the dirt of the interim management of the NDDC supervising the audit in the air for an eventual entente. Really, what is happening now is a crossfire of blackmail and intimidation. It is the threat of mutually assured destruction before the ‘’meeting at the table of kindreds’’. The probes will go the way of other probes.

Nevertheless, the revelations from these probes should be ammunition for all Nigerians and those directly affected by the sleaze at the NDDC; in this case, the people of the Niger Delta. Why is Chief Edwin Clark, the foremost Ijaw leader, taciturn? Why is he not spitting fire like he often does when issues of resource control and marginalisation of the Niger Delta are on the table? Or is the mindboggling thievery allegedly perpetrated by the sons of the region of no consequence because they are natives?

Where is Asari Dokubo, the defender of the Niger Delta, who has been vociferous on all national issues? Is the sleaze at the NDDC not worth raising hell and threatening apocalypse over? Where are the Niger Delta Avengers? Is the NDDC corruption bazaar not a cause to undertake a peaceful citizen action for? Or do the avengers only avenge when it involves a certain Sani, Musa, Taiwo or Nnamdi?

Why is there no outrage in the Niger Delta?

This same silence of the Niger Delta was palpable during the administration of Goodluck Jonathan which was in throes of cosmic allegations of corruption. So, it is clear here that the agitations of the region over the years have a heavy ethnic burden.

Really, we do not hate corruption. We only hate where the corrupt person comes from. Let me rephrase that. Corruption matters to us only when the ethnic background of the accused is in the equation.

The Niger Delta losing its voice at this time of great consequence for the region will always haunt it.

Fredrick Nwabufo is a writer and journalist

Twitter: @FredrickNwabufo

The reasons E. K. Clark can not be that vocal on the NDDC corruption scandals is because Chief Clark knew that the federal government is the one creating the problem.

You set up NDDC but you failed to put the watchdog to guide the asset of the people.

The federal government created the weak institution that has now become the environment of thievery and exploitation of the resources of the Niger delta region.

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FAILED IN THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES.

That was why E. K Clark has been speaking all this while through PANDEF calling on the federal government to RESTRUCTURE the country.

Restructuring would have given the Niger delta region the full right to control their resources and then checkmate their own people.

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DESIGNED NDDC AND THE MINISTRY OF THE NIGER DELTA REGION TO FAILED RIGHT FROM THE ONSET because they do not want the good people of the Niger delta region to command authority in their own God given crude oil resources.

IT IS RATHER A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DESIGNED PROBLEMS but stage managed with the indigene of the Niger delta region which they give appointment and then make the public to think it is not a federal government problem.

There is more to this NDDC drama, the Niger Delta people are no longer political naive as they were in the past.

This does not mean that evil is supported but time reveals many things.

Why hasn't Tonyebarcanista written even a sentence about this? Bro na wa for you o.

mrvitalis:

U people are the dumb ones ..north is trying to remove your mind from resource control and u are falling for it

They appoint their boys in NDDC , set them up to fail and make it seem as if Niger Delta can't manage their resources so no body would take them Serious if they cry

It's a simple game u all fell for it

You exemplify stupidity.

You innate ability of not accepting your own mistake is your albatross.

Blaming your self inflicted woes on an outsider is an admittance of incapacity and incapability.

omenka:
Why hasn't Tonyebarcanista written even a sentence about this? Bro na wa for you o.

Na today you know say NDDC na ppl cashcow like other government agencies?

Nexus25:


You exemplify stupidity.

You innate ability of not accepting your own mistake is your albatross.

Blaming your self inflicted woes on an outsider is an admittance of incapacity and incapability.

You have been fooled and u fell it

Ask yourself how would u feel when Niger Delta cry for resources control ? ..take them serious ? No na ...that's the plan have a great day

SpecialAdviser:
God bless you OP.
Most of them freedom fighters are scammers.

Only Nnamdi KANU stands out.

clarck is niger delta looting technical director

Sirwallace:

Before this probe and the revelations that it entails, I have always said the development of Niger Delta people is mar by the Niger Deltans elite and govt.

for crying out loud, you have the largest revenue allocations, the 13% derivatives from oil, the NDDC, the Ministry of Niger Delta and the Amnesty program.

they have no excuse not to develop that place like the rest of host cities of oil reserved all over the world.

the uneducated youth languishing in poverty are used as a tool to siphon funds meant to break them out of poverty.

Go to that region and all you see outside the city capital is poverty of the body and the mind.

Why 13% why not 50% ? ...why

d problem wit niger Delta are the nigerdeltans themselves. they should look in d mirror especially ijaw vry lazy ND corrupt ppl. they hate progress

mrvitalis:

Turn the region to Dubai ? ..u guys are just funny ...what's 85 billion naira that we won't hear word about

The main corruption is in the oil rigs were oil is pump and the volumed is recorded as far lass

Leave Niger deltans to face their issue

$85b in 7 months? When was the NDCC set up and how much is there to show for it? The how much has been released to it since the body was set up? Has such an amount ever been released to the Eastern region? Have the heads of the NDCC been igbos, yorubas or fulani's? Wealth is the expression of value. When money is made in a region and spent outside of the region, that region cannot be wealthy. The fault lines of the NDCC lie with it's own beneficiaries who allowed it become a drinking trough.

It would be better to give the money to non locals and tell them by fiat to spend it in the Niger Delta.

This 1951 "leave our thief alone -is he your thief" thinking is the foundation of our problems to date.

mrvitalis:

That's your business ,.... because your brothers are eating your money ( 25%) means u would allow outsiders to eat the majority ?

Take your oil money let us rest ...anyhow u want to spend it is not a national issue but your personal problem

It will always eventually become a national issue stop showing typical Igbo ignorance. Is why you people can't develop despite your hardworking attitude, you don't know anything beyond personal good despite attending school you don't know that environmental good is the only security for the sustainability of your own personal good. And later you will be the first to raise signpost about govt neglect of SS

Niger Delta people see una life....... Billions and billions, no infrastructure to show for it.

BreconHills:


$85b in 7 months? When was the NDCC set up and how much is there to show for it? The how much has been released to it since the body was set up? Has such an amount ever been released to the Eastern region? Have the heads of the NDCC been igbos, yorubas or fulani's? Wealth is the expression of value. When money is made in a region and spent outside of the region, that region cannot be wealthy. The fault lines of the NDCC lie with it's own beneficiaries who allowed it become a drinking trough.

It would be better to give the money to non locals and tell them by fiat to spend it in the Niger Delta.

This 1951 "leave our thief alone -is he your thief" thinking is the foundation of our problems to date.

North appoint their boys ..set them up to fail just to discredit the call for resources control and u all fell for it

Give Niger Delta their own ...let them choose who manages their resources and watch things change

Do u really expect north to appoint good people for Niger Delta to manage their resources

mrvitalis:

That's your business ,.... because your brothers are eating your money ( 25%) means u would allow outsiders to eat the majority ?

Take your oil money let us rest ...anyhow u want to spend it is not a national issue but your personal problem

You think it ends with your rantings on nairaland, you're from Imo and living in Uyo, NDDC covers Imo as well.
Why are you not you not yet on the street protesting.
This is what you get when jobless yoots come into contact with nairaland.

LastProphet:


It will always eventually become a national issue stop showing typical Igbo ignorance. Is why you people can't develop despite your hardworking attitude, you don't know anything beyond personal good despite attending school you don't know that environmental good is the only security for the sustainability of your own personal good. And later you will be the first to raise signpost about govt neglect of SS

You all have been played by north ,

North appoint people they know are corrupt to manage NDDC ....set them up to fail , help bad leaders stay in power ....then make it seems as if Niger Deltans are not capable just to discredit the call for resources control

Ask yourself if u would still support Niger Delta call for resources control ? Or has north succeeded

They are among the elites that is benefitting from the corruption in NDDC, the moment they're sideline is when you hear their voice.
That's not even my headache but the so called educated masses that played into their gimmicks.

No Niger Deltans will come out now to talk but let PMB go and commission anything in the North you'll start hearing Nepotism and all kind of English, if a Northerner were made the MD of NDDC my people will come up with noises all over the world but presently their very own has been milking them to dryness (this is to show us that the loopsided appointment should never be an issue but competency and loyalty to service should be the focus).
For those clamouring for Nigeria break up, hope we've seen the litmus test of it at NDDC (NORTH is never our problem), the corruption fabric is in every household, the battle is not SE Vs NE, or SS Vs NC or SW Vs NW, the battle is purely Elites Vs Masses, even if we break up, it will still remains Elites Vs Masses. The earlier we strategise on the solution the better for our generation.

Area4Area:
You think it ends with your rantings on nairaland, you're from Imo and living in Uyo, NDDC covers Imo as well.
Why are you not you not yet on the street protesting.
This is what you get when jobless yoots come into contact with nairaland.

Give them their oil let them decide who manages Their resources

North just appointed idiots , set them up to fail let them look incompetent all to discredit the call for resources control