NDDC: Anioma Youths Urge National Assembly To Screen & Confirm Board Nominees Without Further Delay

The Anioma Youth Forum Worldwide (AYF-W) has urged the National Assembly to urgently screen and confirm the nominees for the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

AYF-W, the umbrella body of youths in Anioma nation (Delta north), opined the list as forwarded by President Muhammadu Buhari should be treated as a matter of national importance.

The group stated that expediting action on their screening and subsequent confirmation of the nominees was in the interest of the peace and development of the Niger Delta region.

In a statement signed by the national publicity secretary AYF-W, Elvis Ekwukwo noted that the people of the region who have been agitated over the long wait for the appointment and inauguration of a substantive board can no longer afford any further excuses or delays.

AYFW decried the long years of wastage that had bedevilled the commission which left the oil-rich region underdeveloped and expressed confidence in the membership of the new board to deliver.

The group specifically thanked the president for nominating Lauretta Onochie as chairman of the incoming board, stressing that her capacity to deliver on the job can not be doubted by anybody as she has delivered in all past assignments.

“We are very grateful to the Commander in Chief, President Muhammadu Buhari for finding an Anioma daughter worthy of such office even as we know that her appointment was purely based on the conviction of the President that she can deliver.

“This appointment no doubt is one that has once again attested to the political willpower of the President, Muhammadu Buhari to reposition the interventionist Commission to deliver on its core mandate of rapidly developing the Niger Delta region as enshrined in the Act establishing it,” the statement read.

While stating that the appointment of Onochie is in tandem with the NDDC Act as regards the chairmanship of the board, the group also appealed to Mr President to make the findings and recommendations of the concluded forensic audit of the commission public while all those caught in the web should be brought to book to serve as a deterrent.

Source: Sunnewsonline