By Akinwale Kasali
Bayelsa State Governor, Duoye Diri has threatened that he would resist any interference in the administration of the
Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
The Governor made this assertion at the Bayelsa State Government House in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State while receiving NDDC management team in Bayelsa State to perform the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a prototype building by the Commission.
He stressed that NDDC is independent of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and cannot be under the Umana Okon led ministry.
This is coming at a time there is crisis between the NDDC and Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs on a prevailing controversies over purported directive by the Niger Delta Ministry for Personnel Audit at the Commission.
Diri however urged President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently inaugurate a substantive Governing Board for the interventionist agency in line with extant Law.
In a Press statement, the Governor said that, “Someone from Kano State can be appointed to head the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs but that cannot be done in the case of NDDC.”
According to the Governor, the Act setting up NDDC makes reference to only indigenes from the Niger Delta region. It is for this reason that an interim administration can not really take tough decisions for fear of the security of his appointment.”
The Governor therefore call on President Buhari "to resolve this overlap between the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and the NDDC by constituting a governing board to run the affairs of the NDDC”.
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