President Muhammadu Buhari has, on Thursday, sacked the Sole Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Effiong Akwa.
The removal of Mr. Akwa followed a News Band report dated October 14, 2022, wherein a civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) cautioned President Buhari against the appointment of another interim administrator for NDDC.
HURIWA also faulted the illegal transfer of the supervisory purview of the NDDC illegally to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs which, it stated, directly violates the enabling Act that set up the commission.
It expressed consternation that the Forensic Audit Report on NDDC and the White Paper on that report are yet to see the light of the day underlying how so disregarded the NDDC has become within the current administration.
The group queried the President’s delay in the implementation of the recommendations of the report, noting that the whole negligence is as a result of the underhand suppression by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs.
“This negligence and administrative bottlenecks must be dismantled,” HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, said in a statement.
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In the meantime, no reason was given for the removal of the NDDC boss, who was appointed earlier this month.
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