N’Delta Militants back Akpabio, Forensic Audit, Slam NASS
Joint Revolutionary Council constituent group, Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND, has supported the ongoing forensic audit of NDDC.
JRC’s spokesperson, Cynthia Whyte, in a statement, said: “On the revelations at NDDC, we all know that if the Minister and the Interim Management Committee had agreed to a deal with the National Assembly, like has been the case in the past two decades, we would not have heard the things we have been treated to in the past few months.
“Nothing will change at NDDC if the attitude of the National Assembly towards NDDC is not re-worked, re-calibrated and re-jigged.
“If it will take an Akpabio to change that, then fine. Akpabio understands infrastructure development. Apart from King Alfred Diete Spiff, no other governor in the Niger Delta has met or matched the measure of Infrastructural development that Akpabio brought to Akwa Ibom State.
“That is without question. We will like to see that kind of infrastructure deployed across Niger Delta. In the years to come, he will be called to give an account of his stewardship at the Ministry of Niger Delta and NDDC.”
Also, Niger Delta Enterprise Initiative, NDEI, said a forensic audit of NDDC should continue as planned to determine how the N15 trillion allocated to the commission in the last 19 years was spent without result.
On its part, President of NDEI, George Kerley, in a statement, said: “In 19 years, NDDC has received about N15 trillion in allocation, yet there is almost nothing to show for it. No first-class quality roads or bridges or schools or related infrastructure.‘‘