The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) yesterday said it would embark on a mass action and to shut down the NDDC office in Port Harcourt if the NDDC interim committee created by the minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Goodswill Akpabio, is not dissolved, and the NDDC board inaugurated

At a media briefing on Monday, November 4, 2019 in Warri, Delta State, the IYC president, Eric Omare, canvassed the immediate set up of the NDDC board which list had already been sent to the Senate by the President and screened by the Senate Committee on NDDC. The IYC President called on the Senate to confirm the nominees screened by its committee on NDDC for immediate inauguration.

The IYC issued a three point demand which if unheeded would lead to the shutting down of the NDDC office in Port Harcourt

They demanded the immediate desolution of the interim committee and to inaugurate the board of the NDDC which member list had been sent to the Senate by Mr. President for approval.

They also sought that the forensic audit of the commission should be supervised by the president himself and not the Niger Delta Affairs ministry.

Omare said it the demands were not met the IYC would be left with no other option than to embark on a mass action and SHUT down the NDDC office in Port Harcourt.

He said the crisis Akpabio had thrown the NDDC into would derail and slow the development of the region saying that virtually all the roads in the Niger Delta were bad, and that rather than the NDDC going to work it was embroiled in unnecessary crisis, which he said was not in the interest of Niger Delta region.

He said “It would be recalled that President Buhari through the office of the Secretary to Government of the Federation in August, 2019 announced the appointment of the Board of NDDC with Chief Bernard Okumagba as Managing Director and Chief Odubu as Chairman subject to senate clearance. On Tuesday, October 29, 2019, the names of the newly appointed board members were forwarded to the Senate for clearance and the Senate President, Ahmed Lawal directed the Senate Committee on NDDC led by Senator Peter Nwaboshi (Delta North) to do the screening within one week. However, to the utter consternation of Niger Deltans and Nigerians, in the evening hours of October 29, 2019, Chief Akpabio announced the appointment of a three man NDDC interim management committee led by one Mrs. Joy Ghene Nuieh as Acting Managing Director.”

“The IYC completely reject the interim management committee set up by Chief Akpabio because it is illegal and not in the interest of the NDDC and the Niger Delta region to set up such a committee when the Senate has begun the screening process.”

All these noises are very unnecessary. The board nominees are still under going screening.

Once the process is completed, they will be inaugurated.

All these hating on Akpabio instead of supporting him by his own people is heartbreaking. I am sure if the interim board came from someone else, you all will keep quiet.

They should go ahead. Even if its possible to shut Nigeria down its a welcome idea.

Foxman19:
They should go ahead. Even if its possible to shut Nigeria down its a welcome idea.

You sound like an anarchist. Only trouble seems to give you joy.

I pray they catch you and shut you down in the process.
Asshole.

netpro:


You sound like an anarchist. Only trouble seems to give you joy.

Foxman19:
I pray they catch you and shut you down in the process.
Asshole.

Cho cho cho all the time. Someone that can't even influence anything in his community, wants to shut down Nigeria. Abeg face front.

Foxman19:
I pray they catch you and shut you down in the process.
Asshole.

That dude and his likes love when people are treated unfairly. They love injustice when it favours them.

Leave him i will deal with him here netpro i pity you
I will frustrate you her

meccuno:
That dude and his likes love when people are treated unfairly. They love injustice when it favours them.

Both NDDC, IYC, And Akpabio himself should all go to hell and burn to ashes. They all care about their pockets, you can imagine the idiot ranting ' that all roads in the Niger delta are bad' like he care about the Niger delta. Nonsense

Foxman19:
Leave him i will deal with him here netpro i pity you
I will frustrate you her

Young man di very careful. Agam aku gi ibi.