PROBE NDDC NOW OR GET BURST!

The time to probe this cesspool of corruption is now!  The Niger Delta Development Commission was created in the year 2000 by former President Olusegun Obasanjo via an Act of the National Assembly to facilitate the rapid, even and sustainable development of the Niger Delta into a region that is “economically prosperous, socially stable, economically regenerative and politically peaceful”; unfortunately, the Commission – Sixteen years after – has only managed to produce a cauldron ravaged by environmental disasters, oil spill, degradation, poverty, dilapidated infrastructures and sickness.  Above all, it has left in its wake amongst others youth restiveness, kidnapping and militancy; the Niger Delta Development Commission has been hijacked by evil men, community and warring factional leaders not to mention politicians.  As a result, the Commission is now more of a conduit to siphon billions of naira earmarked for regional development.  It is this parochial altitude that has denied, robbed the people of the coastal region the much sought after Eldorado.  The most terrible of their crimes is the non-completion of the crucial East-West road linking Port Harcourt to Warri.  The only worthy project commissioned, perhaps, that would not amount to “window dressing” is the River State NDDC office.  The ordinary 3.65 kilometer Okrika – Borokiri road with three bridges connecting vital areas such as Kolabi, Abotom and Okpoka creeks has dragged on for years.  “The political appointees do not have the will to do what they are appointed to do”, said Biobara Amadi.

 The question now is: will they change?  The answer is definitely “No”.  The Commission is too far gone into the abysmal pit of corruption that any further pumping of scarce resources into its vaults would amount to water down the drain!