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Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by TonyeBarcanista(m): 8:42am On Jan 26, 2019
COALITION OF AKWA IBOM OIL PRODUCING COMMUNITIES VANGUARD

25/1/19

*EXTERMINATING AKWA IBOM FROM NDDC BOARD IS INJUSTICE TAKEN TOO FAR*

We have received with great shock the arbitrary dissolution of the governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by President Muhammadu Buhari, this is the second time within three years that the President would dissolve the entire management board of this agency without any explanation.

The Niger Delta Development Commission was established by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2000 with the core mandate of developing the Niger Delta region, training and empowering youths of the region to curb hostilities and militancy and to develop key infrastructure in the region. The position of the leadership was supposed to rotate between the component state of the region, it is worthy of note that Akwa Ibom as the highest producer of Crude oil has not been fairly treated in the distribution of Management Position in the agency. Such acts of Injustice in the past were the reasons for the Upsurge in militancy and civil unrest in the recent past.

We recall with nostalgia that on Dec 20th 2015, the president woke up in the morning announcing the dissolution of the Barr. Bassey Dan Abia –led board and appointing Mrs. Ibim Semenitari as the Acting Managing Director. Subsequently, it was not until about 10months after that a new board was constituted with Mr Nsima Ekere as the Managing Director.

We are aware that the current action by the President which comes on the heels of repeated cries of fraud, Corruption and Flagrant Disregard to the rule of Law labeled in some quarters against the Nsima Ekere led management, is in line with the president Anti-Corruption fight.

We are equally aware that the sacked managing director Mr. Nsima Ekere is contesting on the platform of the All Progressives Congress to be a Governor and Justice demands that such high profile position of accountability and probity should not be given to someone found wanting in the cause of Public Service.

We are also aware that when a public officer resigns from office, he tenders a resignation letter to his employer who subsequently accepts or rejects such resignation letter. In this case the letter appointing a new management team contains no such reference which means All is not well.
Similarly, if for the benefits of doubt we were to believe that Mr. Ekere actually resigned his appointment as Managing Director to afford him time to contest for his election, are we also to believe that the entire management team that has been replaced also resigned to go and serve in his campaign team?

The Federal Government, through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha had announced a year ago that the current board of the NDDC was to stay for a fresh term of four years, and therefore the ouster of one management team member, ought not to have cost Akwa Ibom its constitutionally provided right to a full term of four years.

As objective and right thinking members of the society, we are not against the sacking of the Management team, however we are worried that if certain probing questions are left unattended to, there may arise, a terrible precedence that may leave the president and his anti-corruption posture on the wrong side of history.

1. Till date, the President has failed to tell Nigerians the offenses committed by Barr. Bassey Dan Abia led Management team and the board that was Sacked on December 20th 2015 , neither was any action carried out to investigate or bring to book any member of the board that may have been culpable.

2. There has been no explanation either by the President on the Rational behind the Dissolution of this current board and its management. In any case if the management team has rocked the boat of morality, it would have been welcome development to have the members face the drumbeat of justice accordingly.

3. The President has neither appointed an Akwa Ibom Indigene as Acting Managing Director or Member of the three-Man Management team, it will be the Second time the President will be Short-changing Akwa Ibom State despite being the highest oil producing state in the country.

4. The announcement by the Presidency has failed to also state the duration of the acting board which has the chairman from Bayelsa and members from Rivers and Delta states.

We hereby call on the President to immediately reconsider the current acting management board and appoint an Akwa Ibom person from the core oil producing communities as new Managing Director in the spirit of fairness and equity, in place of the sacked Managing Director. The failure of ONE man should not serve as a punishment for an entire state.

Signed

Michael Akim Udokim
President

Godswill Bassey Ubokudom
Secretary General

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by iamJ(m): 9:00am On Jan 26, 2019
smh, everything is about tribal sentiments in this country


must every state be represented?


guy if you dont have anything to do this beautiful morning, go and chop sand


sai buhari 4+4

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by TonyeBarcanista(m): 9:15am On Jan 26, 2019
iamJ:
smh, everything is about tribal sentiments in this country


must every state be represented?


guy if you dont have anything to do this beautiful morning, go and chop sand


sai buhari 4+4
No Thanks to Buhari and his ethnic posture in leadership


PMB = 4+0

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by Abjay97(m): 9:20am On Jan 26, 2019
What a nepotic, worst president of Nigeria

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by Xmichael1(m): 9:20am On Jan 26, 2019
wink
Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by yemikiem98: 9:20am On Jan 26, 2019
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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by MANNABBQGRILLS: 9:21am On Jan 26, 2019
iamJ:
smh, everything is about tribal sentiments in this country


must every state be represented?


guy if you dont have anything to do this beautiful morning, go and chop sand


sai buhari 4+4
Sai Baba 4 + 4 issa GOAL

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by naijaguy123456(m): 9:21am On Jan 26, 2019
PDP crying again.

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by Bizibi(m): 9:21am On Jan 26, 2019
iamJ:
smh, everything is about tribal sentiments in this country


must every state be represented?


guy if you dont have anything to do this beautiful morning, go and chop sand


sai buhari 4+4
smh

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by babyfaceafrica: 9:21am On Jan 26, 2019
and so?

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by jaymejate: 9:22am On Jan 26, 2019
You never see anything.
He was in Anambra, all of you de happy, de shake his hand. He is promising Niger bridge and marginalisation blah blah blah blah.

All of you for there, I pity. Akwa ó, Anambra ó, All of you

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by PapalsBulls(m): 9:22am On Jan 26, 2019
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Pwh456778:
See prove below
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Win all for yourself and your family.

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by BIAFRONIGERIAN(m): 9:23am On Jan 26, 2019
let me reserve my comment till 16th Feb
Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by ItzBIM(m): 9:25am On Jan 26, 2019
Never again will a Dullard or thief lead us

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by martowskin1(m): 9:26am On Jan 26, 2019
Mehnnnnn everyone is complaining..... This man is a ruler and not a leader

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by Alexis11: 9:27am On Jan 26, 2019
TonyeBarcanista:
COALITION OF AKWA IBOM OIL PRODUCING COMMUNITIES VANGUARD

25/1/19

*EXTERMINATING AKWA IBOM FROM NDDC BOARD IS INJUSTICE TAKEN TOO FAR*

We have received with great shock the arbitrary dissolution of the governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by President Muhammadu Buhari, this is the second time within three years that the President would dissolve the entire management board of this agency without any explanation.

The Niger Delta Development Commission was established by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2000 with the core mandate of developing the Niger Delta region, training and empowering youths of the region to curb hostilities and militancy and to develop key infrastructure in the region. The position of the leadership was supposed to rotate between the component state of the region, it is worthy of note that Akwa Ibom as the highest producer of Crude oil has not been fairly treated in the distribution of Management Position in the agency. Such acts of Injustice in the past were the reasons for the Upsurge in militancy and civil unrest in the recent past.

We recall with nostalgia that on Dec 20th 2015, the president woke up in the morning announcing the dissolution of the Barr. Bassey Dan Abia –led board and appointing Mrs. Ibim Semenitari as the Acting Managing Director. Subsequently, it was not until about 10months after that a new board was constituted with Mr Nsima Ekere as the Managing Director.

We are aware that the current action by the President which comes on the heels of repeated cries of fraud, Corruption and Flagrant Disregard to the rule of Law labeled in some quarters against the Nsima Ekere led management, is in line with the president Anti-Corruption fight.

We are equally aware that the sacked managing director Mr. Nsima Ekere is contesting on the platform of the All Progressives Congress to be a Governor and Justice demands that such high profile position of accountability and probity should not be given to someone found wanting in the cause of Public Service.

We are also aware that when a public officer resigns from office, he tenders a resignation letter to his employer who subsequently accepts or rejects such resignation letter. In this case the letter appointing a new management team contains no such reference which means All is not well.
Similarly, if for the benefits of doubt we were to believe that Mr. Ekere actually resigned his appointment as Managing Director to afford him time to contest for his election, are we also to believe that the entire management team that has been replaced also resigned to go and serve in his campaign team?

The Federal Government, through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha had announced a year ago that the current board of the NDDC was to stay for a fresh term of four years, and therefore the ouster of one management team member, ought not to have cost Akwa Ibom its constitutionally provided right to a full term of four years.

As objective and right thinking members of the society, we are not against the sacking of the Management team, however we are worried that if certain probing questions are left unattended to, there may arise, a terrible precedence that may leave the president and his anti-corruption posture on the wrong side of history.

1. Till date, the President has failed to tell Nigerians the offenses committed by Barr. Bassey Dan Abia led Management team and the board that was Sacked on December 20th 2015 , neither was any action carried out to investigate or bring to book any member of the board that may have been culpable.

2. There has been no explanation either by the President on the Rational behind the Dissolution of this current board and its management. In any case if the management team has rocked the boat of morality, it would have been welcome development to have the members face the drumbeat of justice accordingly.

3. The President has neither appointed an Akwa Ibom Indigene as Acting Managing Director or Member of the three-Man Management team, it will be the Second time the President will be Short-changing Akwa Ibom State despite being the highest oil producing state in the country.

4. The announcement by the Presidency has failed to also state the duration of the acting board which has the chairman from Bayelsa and members from Rivers and Delta states.

We hereby call on the President to immediately reconsider the current acting management board and appoint an Akwa Ibom person from the core oil producing communities as new Managing Director in the spirit of fairness and equity, in place of the sacked Managing Director. The failure of ONE man should not serve as a punishment for an entire state.

Signed

Michael Akim Udokim
President

Godswill Bassey Ubokudom
Secretary General

The bolded is false. Akwa Ibom is not the highest oil producing state in Nigeria, Delta state is.

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by maestroferdi: 9:27am On Jan 26, 2019
What a terrible personality!

You can imagine the quality of the character presiding over the affairs of close to 200 million people...

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by Glink2018(m): 9:28am On Jan 26, 2019
martowskin1:
Mehnnnnn everyone is complaining..... This man is a ruler and not a leader

So also in US , UK and Russia.....

Complaining is not perculiar to Nigeria alone

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by Chinashopping84: 9:29am On Jan 26, 2019
ok
Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by Nobody: 9:30am On Jan 26, 2019
Godswill Akpabio things...

If you know, you know!
Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by wakes: 9:30am On Jan 26, 2019
why?
Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by Nobody: 9:30am On Jan 26, 2019
The new guy is from Cross river.
Are Cross river and Akwa Ibom not similar people? And they not sister state?

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by anonymuz(m): 9:31am On Jan 26, 2019
iamJ:
smh, everything is about tribal sentiments in this country


must every state be represented?


guy if you dont have anything to do this beautiful morning, go and chop sand


sai buhari 4+4
And sense is easy to get o.

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by martowskin1(m): 9:31am On Jan 26, 2019
Glink2018:


So also in US , UK and Russia.....

Complaining is not perculiar to Nigeria alone

Complain get level.... Demnnnn, so finally u guys have accepted Nigeria conditions as normal, God forbid,

I beg enjoy ur normality

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by AllenSpencer: 9:37am On Jan 26, 2019
iamJ:
smh, everything is about tribal sentiments in this country


must every state be represented?


guy if you dont have anything to do this beautiful morning, go and chop sand


sai buhari 4+4

God bless your mother

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by Lordsocrates: 9:37am On Jan 26, 2019
Mbaa mi
Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by franchasng: 9:37am On Jan 26, 2019
Majority of Nigerians agreed that former President Goodluck Jonathan was wrong in some of his leadership styles and tenure, and for that we voted him out and decided to vote in another man to bring positive change that will change the bad and unconstitutional ways things are done in Nigeria, and that man voted into power to bring positive change decides to continue on the past paths of abusing the constitution and disobeying the laws of the land, then it means we also need to rally together and vote out such president because he has also failed Nigerians' great expectations from him...

...and if we try another person and he decides to fail, we will also rally together and vote him/her out until we get it right, there is no other way to get the right leaders to occupy the right positions if not by applying democratic rules and laws that gives the citizens the right to choose their leaders in a free, fair, credible election process.

So we only ask that President Buhari & APC allow Nigerian peoples votes to count, then we shall know truly how Nigerians feel about Buhari, that's all.

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Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by martineverest(m): 9:38am On Jan 26, 2019
tribalism, sentimentalism and corruption/greed are the biggest problems of Nigeria.


We CAN NEVER have a nigeria of our dreams with such mentality
Re: Release: Exterminating Akwa Ibom From NDDC Board Is Injustice Taken Too Far by twilliamx(m): 9:38am On Jan 26, 2019
Source please

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