Anti-graft war: Group urges FG to investigate NDDC's activities

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(Nigeria) A non-governmental organisation, NGO, in the Niger Delta Region, Community Development Watch Initiative, CODWIN, has called on the Presidency and its anti-corruption agencies to investigate  the financial activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, since the year 2000, when it was established.
In a statement by its President, Prince Henry Okpamen, the group said that the call had become imperative following the sorry state of the communities in the Niger Deltaregion and the litany of abandoned projects of the commission scattered across the nine states that make up the region for which funds running into several billions of naira would have been paid.
“The commission, if we may recall, was established by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in 2000, as an interventionist agency essentially to cater for the developmental needs of the communities in the region as a result of years of agitations over neglect.”
It added that the group welcomed, with great expectations, the searchlight which the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, was currently beaming on past activities of the Commission.
“It is our hope that this exercise will reposition the commission for effective service delivery for the people of the region.”
The group also congratulated Mrs lbim Semenitari on her recent appointment as the acting Managing Director of NDDC by President Muhammadu Buhari and her resolve to ensure fair and equitable distribution of projects, social services and programmes across the communities in the nine states in the region.
It also called on her to breathe life into the commission as it relates to effective service delivery to the communities, by monitoring and supervising projects to ensure strict compliance with specification and standards contained in the contractual agreement.

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