NDDC: Okpe youths laud Senate over Okumagba, Erue's confirmation

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(Nigeria) The Senate has been  commended over yesterday's confirmation of Chief Bernard Okumagba as the Managing Director and Prophet Jones Erua as the commissioner representing Delta State, respectively, on the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
The conveners of the youth group, Mr Owin Orhomonokpaye and Precious Itoroh, former National President of National Association of Okpe Student Worldwide, expressed appreciation to the President and the Senators for finding them worthy, assuring them that the appointees will perform credibly well in their new assignment.
The Senate had yesterday confirmed 15 out of the 16 nominees forwarded by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly for confirmation as board members of NDDC.
The nominees confirmed by the Senate are: Dr. Pius Odubu (Edo), Chairman; Okumagba (Delta), Managing Director; Engr. Otobong Ndem (Akwa-Ibom), Executive Director (Projects); Maxwell Oko (Bayelsa), Executive Director, Finance and Admin; Jones Erue (Delta), and Chief Victor Ekhator (Edo).
Others are: Nwogu Nwogu (Abia), Theordore Allison (Bayelsa), Victor Antai (Akwa-Ibom), Maurice Effiwatt (Cross River), Olugbenga Edema (Ondo),  Uchegbu Kyrian (Imo), Aisha Muhammed (Kano), Shuaibu Zubairu (Adamawa), and Ambassador Abdullahi Bage (Nasarawa).
The upper chamber however, rejected the nomination of Dr. Joy Yimebe Nunieh, as nominee representing Rivers State on the board.
 Chairman, Senate Committee on NDDC, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, in his presentation of the committee’s report, explained that the committee sent an invitation to the nominee twice to attend the screening exercise last week.
 The lawmaker, however, told his colleagues on the floor that the nominee on both occasions refused to appear before the panel for screening.
Nwaoboshi drew the attention of the upper chamber to the three-man Interim Management Committee to oversee the affairs of the NDDC.
According to him, the nominee, Dr. Joy Nunieh is acting Managing Director of the Interim Committee.
 In his remarks, the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, while speaking on the existence of the interim committee to oversee the NDDC said, “I think there’s no ambiguity in this matter. Mr. President sent to the Senate his request for us to confirm his nominees.
 “As soon as they (nominees) are confirmed, I’m sure any other structure that exists now is vitiated.
 “I don’t think we have anything to worry about, because this is something that is clearly established by the law.”

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