By Ifeatu Agbu
It is rather unfortunate that the Federal Government has not quite lived up to its billing in dealing with the developmental challenges of the Niger Delta region. For some inexplicable reasons, the central government has consistently failed to adequately meet its statutory obligations to the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, since the inception of the interventionist agency in 2001. This has now forced the traditional rulers from the region to run to the courts to get the government to comply with its own laws.
In spite of the provisions of the NDDC Establishment Act, which says that the Federal Government should contribute an equivalent of 15 per cent of the total amount accruable to the nine oil-producing states from the Federation Account, the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, unilaterally decided to pay only 10 per cent. The difference between what the law says and what Obasanjo decided to pay was what accumulated to N244 billion at the time he left office.
Nigerian Master Web
11 February 2011
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