Transferring NDDC to Niger Delta Ministry will be breaking extant law, Group warns Akpabio
An Itsekiri social cultural group, Iwere People’s Congress has expressed their displeasure to the plot of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, God’s will Akpabio to transfer the supervision of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, from the Presidency to the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, where he holds sway as the substantive minister.
The group in a Stern statement through their spokesperson Comrade Fari Francis said such move by the minister will be breaking the laws that established NDDC as an intervention agency.
It will be recalled that Chief God’s will Akpabio had been credited with statement expressing supervisory control over NDDC. The statement according to Akpabio indicated plans of the Niger Delta Ministry to assume control over the affairs and operation of the commission in a way that will make the intervention agency answerable to the ministry of NigerDelta affairs.
Fari noted that such step if taken will be breaking the law establishing NDDC and this will amount to inviting operational and legal crisis within an organisation which was established to ease off tension among the Niger Delta states.
I were peoples Congress maintained that the lot of NDDC is better protected in the Presidency than anywhere else.
