NDDC workers query Uyo meeting and demand board inaugurations

 The Contractors Association of NDDC (CANDDC) has release with other authentic stakeholders in the Niger Delta Region to query the relevance of the ongoing five-day, 5th meeting of the National Council of Niger Delta (NCND), organized by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and NDDC which began in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state capital on Monday, September 12, 2022 which is today.

In a statement issued in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital by the Chairman of CANDDC, Joe Adia, the group condemned the continued illegality of administering NDDC with a sole administrator contraption in flagrant violation of the law setting up NDDC, the NDDC Acts.

CANDDC therefore urged the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Obong Umana Okon Umana, “to assure that the already screened board that this administration put on hold be inaugurated for peace to reign in the Niger Delta Region.”

Niger Delta authentic stakeholders have demanded that President Muhammadu Buhari should comply with the law setting up NDDC and inaugurate the substantive board to manage the Commission for the benefit of the people of the nine Niger Delta states.

The President had made commitments to end the illegal Interim Management / sole administrator-ship at the NDDC and inaugurate the Board of the Commission upon receipt of the forensic audit, in compliance with the law, and which commitment he made to the nation on June 24, 2021 when he received the leadership of Ijaw National Congress (INC) in Aso Rock, Abuja Nigeria.