Niger Delta Group Says Appointment Of NDDC Acting MD Followed Due Process

Community Development Committees of Niger Delta Oil and Gas Producing Areas have faulted criticisms against the appointment of Dr Emmanuel Audu Ohwavbarua as the acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, saying his choice followed due process.

Comrade Joseph Ambakederimo, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the body in a statement made available to GWG.NG averred that Ohwavbarua was chosen among others mostly because he did not have a disciplinary action against him unlike many of those around him.

Reacting to the development in the statement, titled, ‘Acting Managing Director Of NDDC Followed Due Process,’ Ambakederimo said:

We have observed the hue and cry emanating from certain quarters regarding the recent appointment made by President Muhammadu Buhari to replace the sacked interim Sole Administrator of the NDDC.

2. Vide the letter of appointment duly issued by the Honourable Minister of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, as directed by the President directing the most senior Director in the commission to assume office pending the appointment of a substantive board for the NDDC, this directive is in consonance with an existing gazette issued by the Secretary to the Federal government  and reaffirmed in subsequent releases due largely to cub issues of non-compliance and the need to put a stop to check bad blood amongst officers in MDA’s.

 3. Furthermore, key items contained in the provison states clearly that such officers must not have any pending disciplinary issues. For us this is key and must be guarded jealously taking into cognizance what the region and its people had suffered in the last five years.

 4. In the case of the NDDC, it is on record that many of such officers who now lay claim to be the oldest Director and were hoping to be named as the Acting Managing Director are all having one form of baggage hanging around their neck, some have countless queries arising from acts of insubordination or truancy.

 5. Dr Emmanuel Audu Ohwavbarua who’s name was announced was amongst other names that was submitted to the President and Dr Emmanuel Audu Ohwavbarua’s name came out as the only name without any blemish as at the time the  appointment was made, therefore the President is right to have directed the appointment be made. Another thing we must emphasised is that Dr. Emmanuel Audu is very much qualified to take charge and hold forth pending the appointment of a substantive board.

 6. These officer’s with  baggages think it is their right and have  constituted themselves into an opposition that may derail the good intensions of the President and the Honourable Minister. It is a new era in the NDDC and the region, a new era we must all support.

 7. We will not be in support of persons with questionable characters whom have shown tendencies capable of eroding trust to be handed such an important interventionist agency. Therefore we enjoin all our people to give  maximum support to the  direction the commission is headed under the able leadership of the Honourable Minister and Dr. Audu.

 8. We urge all those who are covertly or overtly working to truncate a smooth transition to desist from this act and support the effort of the Honourable Minister and reposition the commission to its former glory.

  9. There is no doubt that the CDC is still veey much focused and are at the forefront to continue to advocate for the enthronement of a substantive board and we shall not rest until that is achieved, we must only support genuine effort and  clear processes that will lead to the aspiration of our people.

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