NDDC: N’Delta top natives lash out at Buhari, Malami, Akpabio over court order.

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NDDC: N’Delta top natives lash out at Buhari, Malami, Akpabio over court order.

Vanguard.

Top natives of the South-South region at the weekend, warned the Federal Government, the Attorney General of the Federation/Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and Minister of Niger-Delta Affairs, Godwill Akpabion, to stop playing games with the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.

They stressed that not obeying the recent interim order of the Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, which scowled at the use of Interim Management and Sole Administrators to run the interventionist agency, is a call to lawlessness by the Federal Government.

Chairman, Bayelsa State Traditional Rulers Council and Ibenanaowei of Ekpetiama Kingdom, King Bubaraye Dakolo, Agada IV, the paramount ruler of Idjerhe Kingdom, Delta State, HRM King Obukowho Monday Whiskey, Udurhie I, Deputy National Chairman, Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, and Acting Chairman of Bayelsa Elders Forum, Chief Thompson Okorotie, fondly called TKO, among others, told Sunday Vanguard that government was promoting chaos in the organization.

Dakolo, who commended Wailing Women of Niger Delta and others that went to court to challenge the situation in NDDC and those usurping the powers of the board, said: “First and foremost, the Federal Government was not supposed to go ahead with a sole administrator because the Act does not give room for that and people have pointed out this particular misdemeanour time and again to the Federal Government that this is illegal.

“But, they have been deaf and dumb so to speak and now the court has spoken and I believe that they will listen, not listening is to call for anarchy.

“If the court has spoken, the Federal Government should obey the court order and do what the court says and perhaps dish out punishment to all those who have usurped the provisions of the Act for so long.

“When we talk about publishing the findings of the forensic audit of NDDC, yes, it ought to be done, some of us are of the belief that the Federal Government has been hypocritical for so many years and has been acting in a manner against the Niger Delta people.

“The NDDC was supposed to be a stop-gap and an interventionist agency to accelerate the development of the region.

“For some of us, we feel that the paperwork of the NDDC is beautiful, monies come from oil companies but they have not achieved much and nobody is going to jail; nobody is being called to question, which means that from the beginning, the powers-that-be did not want the NDDC to work.

Ijaw Nation Forum

NDDC: N’Delta top natives lash out at Buhari, Malami, Akpabio over court order.

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