frankson1:




The beheading should be after hanging him upside-down for a week.

Haha. Sustained. #bangsTheGavel

Switch07:

If you can't make impact with the 13% I dont think you can do anything if you're given the 50% NDDC have failed us to be honest with you

So we should all gang up and take their oil na

It's not your business what they do with it ...all this drama is plan to kill resource control

LastProphet:


Is a lie nobody has time to know who to select, I'm not the person you tell about governance I can write you a book on governance in Nigeria no be today. So the silence from the SS over the disgraceful NDDC probe and lack of outrage from likes of big mouthed Asari, Clark and Niger Delta avengers is also organized by the north abi? Let's always be objective otherwise we repeat the same misfortunes forever

Who recognized those leaders as Niger Delta leaders

Hmmmm,u have spoken well

OyinO:


You spoiled the great comment at the tail end. Rwanda and Madagascar are working. They are Blacks too.

Lol.. you really believe all the media hype about Rwanda? I've personally met someone from Rwanda and had a long conversation. I believe Rwanda may be moving in the right direction (contrary to what the Rwandan I met thinks), but it's definitely not yet uhuru - a lot of it is hype. Most of the development you see in the media about Rwanda doesn't go beyond Kigali. But no doubt, they're better than most other African countries.

But then again, let's assume Rwanda and Madagascar are getting it perfectly right. Considering the microscopic size and population of those countries, you will agree with me that if they are the only ones with 'hope', then statistically, the black world is hopeless.

mrvitalis:

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

when you become president, you can change that number in the constitution.

BTW: as a president, you don't even have that power. that's up to the lawmakers and you are going to need 2/3 dominated by the north.

the Niger Delta boys are fighting for the wrong reason. Tompolo, Asari Dokubo, Edwin Clark and the rest of them feast on you people ignorance.

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

You seem to actually believe this..... One would think that the governors of niger delta have managed the resources well and developed the states or are the governors also appointed by the north?

A niger deltan was president for 6yrs. I think you should have a re-think.

The current minister of Niger delta was a former niger delta governor...... i wonder which idiots you feel are been appointed.

NB: I am a Niger deltan

karo93:


You seem to actually believe this..... One would think that the governors of niger delta have managed the resources well and developed the states or are the governors also appointed by the north?

A niger deltan was president for 6yrs. I think you should have a re-think.

The current minister of Niger delta was a former niger delta governor...... i wonder which idiots you feel are been appointed.

NB: I am a Niger deltan

Same man who performed wonders as governor is flopping as a minister ...it's not by chance

The South south Elites are like northern Leaders too from the look of things ..

God bless God's will Akpabio for exposing those criminals

What do you expect contractors to say, that they are ready to make refunds?

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

According to Dasuki, buhari collect his share of the loot.

This is the way it is in Nigeria. Those people always get their share of the spoil. The masses are usually the ones missing out.

No, you won't see or hear from them because they're all fraudsters parading themselves as leaders.

It is finished. This is what happens in all ministries, departments and agencies In Nigeria. Who can save us from this giant behemoth of corruption that this country has become

obailala:

Lol.. you really believe all the media hype about Rwanda? I've personally met someone from Rwanda and had a long conversation. I believe Rwanda may be moving in the right direction (contrary to what the Rwandan I met thinks), but it's definitely not yet uhuru - a lot of it is hype. Most of the development you see in the media about Rwanda doesn't go beyond Kigali. But no doubt, they're better than most other African countries.

But then again, let's assume Rwanda and Madagascar are getting it perfectly right. Considering the microscopic size and population of those countries, you will agree with me that if they are the only ones with 'hope', then statistically, the black world is hopeless.

lolz... There's no hope anywhere in the world. Police killed a black man recently in broad daylight. And it happened in the USA. If Rwanda and Madagascar are getting it right, then there's hope for the Black Nations. I understand your viewpoint though.