Groups, including the Ijaw Youth Council , Niger Delta Movement for Peace and Justice, Niger Delta Progressive Front, and the Vanguard for Transparent Leadership and Democracy have faulted the move by President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate today the advisory committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission in the absence of a substantive governing board for the interventionist agency.
Signed by Omare, the statement read: “If we may ask the Federal Government, especially the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, which governing board would the advisory committee advise in the absence of a substantive board of the NDDC? In another statement yesterday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State by its National Coordinator and National Secretary, Comrades Etifit Nkereuwem and Opuene Bubaraye, the Niger Delta Movement for Peace and Justice, a coalition of 20 civil society organisations , also implored the president to jettison his planned inauguration of the advisory committee and inaugurate the governing board of the commission.Delta Affairs for the inauguration of Niger Delta Development Commission’s Advisory Committee by Mr.
In yet another statement yesterday by the National Coordinator, Comrade Johnson Ebelo, the Niger Delta Progressive Front urged the governors in the oil-rich area not to back the composition of the advisory panel, which it described as “charade.”
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