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Following the reports of massive corruption rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, a group, under the auspices of Host Communities of Nigeria (HOSCON), has called on the Federal Government to sack and prosecute officials of the commission who has been alleged to have plundered the “commonwealth” of Niger Deltans.

This is even as the group demanded the urgent inauguration of the screened NDDC Board.

The group made the call in a statement issued after a crucial stakeholder meeting among leaders from the 10 oil-producing states, Delta, Edo, Ondo, Lagos, Bayelsa, Rivers, Cross Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Abia, and Imo, on Sunday.Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC

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According to a statement signed by HOSCON’s national director of media and publicity, Okakuro Whiskey, the people of the region have had enough of the “wanton wastage and outright stealing that is ongoing currently, in the Commission”.

“We are no longer comfortable with the multi-billion naira fraud that has bedeviled the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) under the kangaroo three members Interim Management Committee (IMC), leading to wastage of over 80 Billion Naira.

We demand without further delay, that the already screened and confirmed Board by the National Assembly under the Chairmanship of His Excellency Dr. Pius Odubu, be urgently inaugurated to put a stop to this.
We demand without further delay, the return of the NDDC back to the Presidency for proper administration and supervision.

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We demand without further delay immediate sack and prosecution of all the actors who perpetrated these heinous crimes against the people of the oil-producing communities” the statement read in part.
The group added that when the NDDC was put under the control of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, it had raised an alarm in November 2019 that such will be detrimental to the region while lamenting that the desperation of Chief Godswill Akpabio’s to control the NDDC is a well-designed plot to plunder the commonwealth of the region,” the statement read.

HOSCON further warned that having labored so much to ensure sustainable peace in the oil and gas area, it will not “sit aloof and allow some self-aggrandizing political appointees that are selfishly motivated to set the region on fire”.

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