Niger Delta youths commend Jonathan

The Nation

19 August 2011

Niger Delta youths commend Jonathan

A group known as Niger Delta Youth Movement (NDYM) has commended President Goodluck Jonathan over the bold step in setting up an administrative panel to probe the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) of an alleged N69b fraud.

In a press statement signed by the National President Comrade Godspower Odenema and the National Secretary Comrade Moses Omo-lkirodah at the group’s Presidential Liaison Office Ughelli, Delta State, the group analysed the impunity with which the affairs of the NDDC have been run in the past 21 months.

The group expressed appreciation to the President for setting up a panel to look into the crisis in the NDDC, as well as to identify areas of conflicts with a view to proffering solutions that will enhance and strengthen values at the commission.

The statement further noted that the 9-man panel will critically look into the awards of contracts, illegal transfer of the Commission’s money, alleged N69bn NDDC scam and the immediate and remote causes of in-fighting in the commission in the past two years.

The group alleged that there are moves by some NDDC bigwigs to offer mouth- watering bribes to some members of the panel so that their findings and recommendations could favour them.

The group urged the members of the panel to be sincere and resist all temptations as their findings and recommendations will have direct impacts on the welfare, future and fortune of more than 30 million Niger Deltans.