When President Buhari in his quest for a new beginning, ordered a FORENSIC AUDIT into the activities of NDDC from inception to date, little did Political influencers in the region imagine it would come to fruition.
When he took a further step by directing the MINISTER of Niger Delta Affairs to inaugurate an Interim Management Committee to create enabling environment for the AUDIT, they broke the secure locks of Hades and unleashed ancient DEMONS to invade Television Houses and game newspaper columnists with vile propaganda.
There is nothing as powerful as self-interest of political god fathers in the Niger Delta. The insularity of their high positions has shielded them from the problems of the common man which are basically existential.
They have betrayed the people, shared their COMMONWEALTH generally and particularly in NDDC being an interventionist agency. The time to give account has suddenly arrived like an unforeseen hurricane and they are unprepared.
As it has dawned on them that we now live in a world where our digital foot and fingerprints follow money trails in a very exponential manner, they have gone into panic mode and are openly engaging in reverse logic under many aliases to the consternation of the Nigerian public.
Even their interpretation of events leading to the setting up of the Interim Management Committee has been somewhere on the spectrum from “incomplete” to “inaccurate”.
There is no need reiterating that NDDC under the underhand control of the buccaneer political god fathers was synonymous with heist.
A hawk with a song is a hawk no matter how it pretends to be a songbird. They are just afraid of the consequences of their illegal and ruinous takeover of the Commission; not that they are remorseful nor have they learnt anything.
The Commission have been in their control for over 18yrs nothing meaniful happened, from all indication they are incapable of any good and cannot change any more than a zebra can change its stripes.
They are ANSWERABLE only to the mammon gods of their pockets and must be resisted at all costs. The INTERIM MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE must be allowed to work and the AUDIT must PROCEED as ORDERED by President Mohammadu Buhari.
This AGENCY which suffered from the syndrome of fatal procrastination that sealed its fate and put it on the path of perfidy is now experiencing fresh air of good deeds. We worry that the antics of moochers and men with insatiable greed who drove it to near collapse if left unchecked and unrebuked may slow down this onward march to a new dawn of limitless opportunities. The President should not let it happen.
It’s a thing of joy for us as Niger Delta people that the commission in under the supervision of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs. We challenge the minister and members of the committee not to be undaunted, not to give up or give in because the destinies of millions of our people are in their hands as agents of change.
We cannot afford to make our future look like our past. They must blaze a path that would ultimately illuminate new pathways and they would forever remain in the favour of a grateful region.
Niger Delta Grassroots Development Initiative, write 4rm Ughelli, Delta State, Nigeria....
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