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

Ezmans:
A good house & shops you I'll see in Nigeria delta are own by igbos, they use nddc money to bleach there skin, Lodge in hotel, carry women, buy a car, with there greed eyes against business minded igbos,after it finished they clean there gun & accused fg

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.

TonyeBarcanista:

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

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

mrvitalis:

So they are mis use the money ...it now give u right to steal the money ? ...it's not your business how they spend their money ....

wink2015:


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.

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.

desiredhome:


Stop talking trash here...... Because of resources from the Niger Delta region they've created:

Niger Delta developed Commission (NDDC)
Ministry of Niger Delta Development
They give them 13% derivation money every month
They have high internally generated revenue from major oil companies in the region
They have special social supports from these companies......

Despite all these the region has nothing to write home about ......

If after all these you still think the north or someone is your problem, then I think you are under a curse...

soulpeppersoup:


You are an example of corruption. Shame no dey catch you?

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

mrvitalis:

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

mrvitalis:

U mean agency the same people that stole the oil from day one appoint who run them ?

They appoint their boys that they know would fail ...make them fail them make it look like Niger deltans can't run their selfs

All in the bid to kill the call for resources control

Area4Area:
Why haven't you been on the street in protest of your lies and propaganda? Someone said that's why your Imo state has never been blessed with a good governor since 1999 because of people like you who support their conduct

tempest01:
Someone with billions of corruption case around is neck decamps and joins a ruling party, His file is destroyed and he is given a "lucrative" ministry to control during elections cycle.

Who makes appointments? What was the person expecting him to do when he assumes the office? to turn a new leaf?

You are here calling out ND leaders when the person you should be calling out is the person that "supposedly" appointed known suspected looters during elections period to pillage the Nigerdelta funds.

wink2015:


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.

desiredhome:


The black man is cursed...…

mrvitalis:

Imo state is not blessed because ....but the is more develop than your state

mrvitalis:

Allow them manage their oil money , why can't Niger Delta governor's manage nddc ?

Do u expect north to appoint good people ?

All this is just the plan to kill resource control

Area4Area:
What's the state? Will you go out this minute and start protesting for a change in the NDDC

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.

asanwafo:
Educated e-diot! How many months has Akpabio stayed in office? Did the whole embezzlement happened with the last 1yr?

omenka:
I have been saying it and will continue to say it. We have become so clanish in this country that the strength of our revolt or revulsion for a perceived wrongdoing is predicated on the identity of its perpetrator.

It is okay if "one of our own" is the snag to our progress and not okay if an outsider is, notwithstanding the fact that both would exert exactly the same hinderance to our collective success.

That is Nigeria for you and that is the reason why there is no uproar in the Niger Delta over the revelations of monumental malfeasance in the body. Of course the reactions would have been different if someone from the North was the one heading the body. Perhaps the militants would have been blowing up pipelines by now.

Nigeria is in a really sorry state.

tempest01:
Someone with billions of corruption case around is neck decamps and joins a ruling party, His file is destroyed and he is given a "lucrative" ministry to control during elections cycle.

Who makes appointments? What was the person expecting him to do when he assumes the office? to turn a new leaf?

You are here calling out ND leaders when the person you should be calling out is the person that "supposedly" appointed known suspected looters during elections period to pillage the Nigerdelta funds.

lexy2014:


How have d Niger Delta governors since 1999 managed d resources of their various states?

mrvitalis:

U no fall mugu to North and their boys

All this is to kill the call for resources control

mrvitalis:

Very very ...relative to other states like Lagos
All of them have airports only zone to achieve that ...road network is great ...great educational system ...all this with 25% of their true wealth

Imagine if they are got 75%

PIMPAR:

The money belongs to the , millions of Niger Deltans not the few ones. Use your sense for once

lexy2014:


D article is in order& d article didn't say that Akpabio isn't complicit. It is saying y are d ND leaders & militants quiet in d face of this brazen corruption?