The Presidency on Tuesday faulted claims by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, that the National Boundaries Commission is corrupt.

The government said instead of cooperating with the NBC in the boundary dispute between Imo and Rivers States, Wike frustrated every effort made by the commission to demarcate the boundary.

The PUNCH reported that Wike had advised the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to beam his searchlight on the activities of the NBC, claiming that the organisation now personified corruption in Nigeria.

The governor spoke at a thanksgiving service held at Paul’s Anglican Cathedral in Port Harcourt on Sunday over the victory of Rivers State at the Supreme Court in the oil well dispute between it and Imo State.

“Unfortunately, the most corrupt national agency is the National Boundary Commission. Corruption is personified in NBC.

“If Mr. President is fighting corruption, he should leave innocent individuals and go to these agencies where corruption is personified. I’ve never seen people who believe anything they do must be for money”, he said.

But the DIrector-General of NBC (a parastatal of the Presidency), Adamu Adaji, who made the clarification during a press conference in Abuja said, despite the Supreme Court judgement on the disputed oil well between Imo and Rivers states, the commission would go ahead to delineate the physical boundary.

He said, “We will continue to do our work. The ruling of the Supreme Court was on the disputed resources not on the physical boundary.

“In a concerted effort to carry out its core mandates of intervening, determining, and dealing with boundary dispute, the NBC scheduled and held several meetings with the two states involved. We fixed a meeting in April 2020 for the two states but got a call from the Secretary to the Rivers State Boundary Commission few minutes to the commencement that they won’t come on the instruction of Wike.

“It is unfortunate that Rivers State has reneged on several agreements with the commission and refused to participate both in screening and authentication of document exercise and other action including partaking in the physical fieldwork, but now turn around to accuse the commission of being corrupt.

“We want to make it categorically clear that the NBC was never an interested party in the oil wells disputes between Imo and Rivers as it is not our mandate and so we never joined as a party in the suit between the states.

“It is, therefore, very insensitive for anybody to accuse the commission of any collusive actions when she is not an interested party in the case.

“We vehemently deny any act of corruption in its conduct in respect to the Imo/Rivers interstate boundary and any other one for that matter and we wish to further reassure all parties and stakeholders that we will continue to engage all and remain focused on the fulfillment of our mandate.

“As far back as January 2003, a joint meeting of officials on the Imo/Rivers interstate boundary was held in Owerri to deliberate on the modalities of the demarcation but unfortunately both states were evidently not ready for the physical tracing and the provisional demarcation of the boundary.

“The only success recorded was the decision on the relevant instruments for use on the boundary which were identified as: Aboh Toposheets 311, Aba Toposheets 32, Ahaoda Toposheets 320, Okigwe Toposheets 312, State creation Decree No. 14 of 1967, and State creation Decree No. 12 of 1976.

“In its concerted efforts to carry out its core mandate of intervening, determining, and dealing with boundary disputes, the NBC again held another meeting in October 2011 at Port Harcourt to review the previous efforts and come up with a new strategy for the tracing and demarcation.

“Based on the uncooperative actions previously displayed by the states and some other states, the National Boundary Commission resolved never again to allow the apathetic nature of the states to impede on the commission’s functions.

“Consequently, the NBC resolved to pursue the agreements of the joint meeting of officials held in Abuja in March 2020 diligently. It was agreed at that meeting, that parties would meet on documents to be used and thereafter undertake sensitisation campaign preparatory to the scheduled fieldwork.

“In its characteristic manner, Rivers State again reneged on the agreement and refused to participate both in the screening and authentication of documents exercise and other agreed actions including to partake in the physical fieldwork citing a pending court case on the issue of ownership of oil wells.

“The commission categorically made it clear to the Rivers State government that the case in court bothered on the ownership of the oil wells and had absolutely nothing to do with the NBC’s assignment to determine the interstate boundary between Imo and Rivers states.

“Having earlier resolved that the commission would no longer “wait on” states that do not wish to participate before doing that which is necessary for peace to reign, the NBC proceeded with the conduct of its work of the physical tracing and provisional demarcation of the Imo/Rivers boundary.”

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Mynd44
Lalasticlala

Hmmmm
Wike another tight man
Abeg try and clear your roads of the dirts
It's to much and has a lot of health hazards

Interesting

We know how this federal government agency work, wike the wicked ☝️ one ,

Is this man ok so?
No be the boundary go decide which state the oil wells dey?
The Suprleme Court nko?
Is their head ok?
How them take know which state get the wells when nobody know the boundary?

blazingblender:
Hmmmm
Wike another tight man
Abeg try and clear your roads of the dirts
It's to much and has a lot of health hazards

the oil well still dey pepper you, sorry you hear.

Corrupt organization everywhere in this government, they have lost the oil well to River State and that is why they are now focusing on bayelsa they want to use Jonathan propaganda to take over bayelsa because of their oil. So if bayelsa people like let them do Mumu for APC government to take over their oil well because we all saw the wickedness IMO STATE governor always do to IMO STATE youth.

I think the supreme Court was hasty in delivering judgement before the demarcation of boundaries.

What if after demarcation the oil Wells fall into the area marked as imo state?

Once the izombe oil facility was bombed I knew that judgement would never go the way of imo State. All of a sudden lzombe flow station was bombed less than 4 days to the court judgement? A lot of things are happening behind the scenes!

That means there are still room for a review of the supreme court judgement in future.

If he could not settle common Dispute at home, he should forget about to rule nigeria.
Nigeria is not an easy place.

Wike knew how to bribe his way in corrupt Nigeria judicial institution.
Ndi Imo shouldn't give up but fight on there is still hope.

It's like na wike direct Selina tested series

The position of NBC clearly shows their biased and Wike took the right decision going to supreme court. NBC can't do otherwise. How many Rivers people work there? This is not a matter of Rivers State and Imo but the whole South East. Any South East person in B
NBC is biased against Rivers State. Wike understands this Adamu may not as someone outside the zone.
Supreme Court Judges are not stupid and NBC can't do otherwise.
Imo was in same court with Rivers State. The only thing NBC can do is to approach the supreme court for their verdict and harmonize their job
NBC action of going ahead with their demarcation is like INEC saying they will continue with an electoral process when supreme court has cancelled an election or declared someone the winner

Wike's control over Nigeria judiciary is something else

This Wike nah real stubborn man oooo I would have love him to be the president of this country we need someone like him to rule us...not all this Old 80 years men who don't have the strength to walk talkless of ruling a country

Wike is a tyrant and domineering.

He isn’t fit for any leadership post.

Jostoman:
Corrupt organization everywhere in this government, they have lost the oil well to River State and that is why they are now focusing on bayelsa they want to use Jonathan propaganda to take over bayelsa because of their oil. So if bayelsa people like let them do Mumu for APC government to take over their oil well because we all saw the wickedness IMO STATE governor always do to IMO STATE youth.

wtf u saying bro....federal govt decides who owns an oil well....this states just dey fight for owners in order to receive royalties from the wells.

You go into the bush and start demarcating with no rep.

And insisted they should bribe you, before you do the right thing.
Criminals everywhere!

Why does woke always like running to the supreme court?
It's obvious that there is something behind the scene.

Good Wike pls, let the agency do their job.
We don't want vawulence

No lies.

Very corrupt agency, Olu Falae was once part of this commission and he ceded some Edo lands to Ondo.

The Oil wells were cut out to frustrate the igbos

So it is the judges that cannot be bribed? Lol. I think the boundary commission should be allowed to do thier job. I am now feeling Wike might have bought the judgement because the boundary commission should have done its job first before any judgement can be paasset.

chrisxxx:
The position of NBC clearly shows their biased and Wike took the right decision going to supreme court. NBC can't do otherwise. How many Rivers people work there? This is not a matter of Rivers State and Imo but the whole South East. Any South East person in B
NBC is biased against Rivers State. Wike understands this Adamu may not as someone outside the zone.
Supreme Court Judges are not stupid and NBC can't do otherwise.
Imo was in same court with Rivers State. The only thing NBC can do is to approach the supreme court for their verdict and harmonize their job
NBC action of going ahead with their demarcation is like INEC saying they will continue with an electoral process when supreme court has cancelled an election or declared someone the winner

End of the road for Imo state. NBC can't change the goal post any longer. Supreme court decision is final and no body can tamper with it, not even Buhari.

“In a concerted effort to carry out its core mandates of intervening, determining, and dealing with boundary dispute, the NBC scheduled and held several meetings with the two states involved. We fixed a meeting in April 2020 for the two states but got a call from the Secretary to the Rivers State Boundary Commission few minutes to the commencement that they won’t come on the instruction of Wike.

“It is unfortunate that Rivers State has reneged on several agreements with the commission and refused to participate both in screening and authentication of document exercise and other action including partaking in the physical fieldwork, but now turn around to accuse the commission of being corrupt.

This man Wike is just too cantankerous for a political leader, and such a person would spell doom for Nigeria should he go near Aso Rock.
How can this man turn himself into an institution, rather than respect the existing institutions in Nigeria?
NBC is a properly constituted agency of the federation, and Wike MUST respect it whether he likes it or not.
If he cannot respect a legitimate agency of the Nigerian state, why should any Nigerian trust him with higher power which can put such agencies under his direct influence and control?
A very dangerous man indeed.

What did I just read?
So the NBC was never a party to the suit and this Adamu is saying that the verdict is about the resources and not the physical boundaries.
How do you determine who owns the resources if you don't take into consideration the land where such assets are located ?

This man causing confusions everywhere.
I hope he doesn’t have skeletons in his cupboard before APC Thunder fire him ultimatummuu after 2023

Masterito:
So it is the judges that cannot be bribed? Lol. I think the boundary commission should be allowed to do thier job. I am now feeling Wike might have bought the judgement because the boundary commission should have done its job first before any judgement can be paasset.

This is stalled already. You would have advised Imo State to inform the Court. But Imo went to court all through and now NBC can't do otherwise. You don't follow your opponent to where he has advantage. However the oil well is Rivers.