God bless you brother

omenka:
I have been saying it and will continue to say it. We have become so clanish in this country that the strength of our revolt or revulsion for a perceived wrongdoing is predicated on the identity of its perpetrator.

It is okay if "one of our own" is the snag to our progress and not okay if an outsider is, notwithstanding the fact that both would exert exactly the same hinderance to our collective success.

That is Nigeria for you and that is the reason why there is no uproar in the Niger Delta over the revelations of monumental malfeasance in the body. Of course the reactions would have been different if someone from the North was the one heading the body. Perhaps the militants would have been blowing up pipelines by now.

Nigeria is in a really sorry state.

Excellent post. Thanks for being objective, man.

Very well-written. If only we had people 1/2 as educated on the other side .... there would be intelligent debates here.

It seems they are part of the corruption.

Someone with billions of corruption case around is neck decamps and joins a ruling party, His file is destroyed and he is given a "lucrative" ministry to control during elections cycle.

Who makes appointments? What was the person expecting him to do when he assumes the office? to turn a new leaf?

You are here calling out ND leaders when the person you should be calling out is the person that "supposedly" appointed known suspected looters during elections period to pillage the Nigerdelta funds.

These people you mentioned are the main culprits in the contract racketeering.

mrvitalis:

Shut up ...the money is there money , let their brothers eat it ...maybe if we leave their oil money they can eat 50% and use 50% to work ... instead of this 25% they are getting

Simplistic tribalism. Life is a network. Those who have money and those who make the things that money buys are in a symbiotic relationship that guarantees interest in how the other leads their lives.

Kriss216:
They're waiting to attack Nnamdi Kanu( God's child).

Ndi iberibe!

You mean Namdiot coward Cownu, the leader of the retarded brainwashed IPIG miscreants?

Yeah right.

I think the most important issue now should be the way forward. There must be a complete restructuring. The Niger Delta people must know what goes on from this time henceforth on a monthly basis. Information such as:

1. The Budget must be made public and pass in good time.
2. Contracts awarded must be made public and the amount involved.
3. Progress reports must be made public from time to time.
4. Amount spent on recurrent expenditure must also be made public.
5. Revenue generated must also be made public.

In addition, no contract should be awarded to anyone not a Niger Deltan.

I strongly suggest Joy Nunieh should be reinstated and Akpabio moved to another ministry.

mrvitalis:

Shut up ...the money is there money , let their brothers eat it ...maybe if we leave their oil money they can eat 50% and use 50% to work ... instead of this 25% they are getting

You are a criminal.......if the thieves cannot work with 25% is it 50% they will use?

Arrewa:
Niger Delta and hypocrisy 5,6

Nice cartoon there which isn't far from the truth. When they steal the money they don't mention the north which by the way has the highest percentage of poverty in Nigeria.But when asked for accountability they say is the north that is the Niger Deltans problem.

NDDC one of the commission that has impoverished the SS region and Delta regions. When I work as an internship student there, the commission is full of more northerners than the Niger deltans. So corrupt commission.. May God see u all through

NDDC is not what they fought for. They fought for resource control which is not money but a structure and framework. They did not fight for roll after roll of goverment red tape. They did not fight for 'allocation', they fought for control.

Control means accountability... accountability to the people of the Niger Delta not to some National Assembly 600miles away in Abuja.

As long as we operate this way accountability can never be achieved. Once more we see our penchant for calling out individuals for the failure of institutions. Institutions we know simply cannot work in this failed federal setting.

Once more the 'Gowonesque' ghost still haunts. Money, money, money. We cannot get a hand on that fact that money is not what brings development but a proper framework.

Susu888:
Logical answer is that they (clarke , dukubo nd the avengers) got their cut! Its nigeria.....

Of course, they're all part of the rot that's why they're not saying anything!

desiredhome:


You are a criminal.......if the thieves cannot work with 25% is it 50% they will use?

So they are mis use the money ...it now give u right to steal the money ? ...it's not your business how they spend their money ....

BreconHills:


Simplistic tribalism. Life is a network. Those who have money and those who make the things that money buys are in a symbiotic relationship that guarantees interest in how the other leads their lives.

But the gold money in the north is used well right ? Give Niger Delta their oil money and let them be

How can we cure Naija of this virus called Corruption? Is it by castration, use of hypo & jik or application of alcohol based sanitizer?

mrvitalis:

Shut up ...the money is there money , let their brothers eat it ...maybe if we leave their oil money they can eat 50% and use 50% to work ... instead of this 25% they are getting

Maga y? abeg tell me say u dey jonz

Criminals

obailala:
]Let no one be deceived. The only reason these things keep going on is because the so called agitators and elder statesmen always get their share of the loot without fail. Agitation only comes when the flow is cut - the black man is indeed useless to himself.

The black man is cursed......

Self serving money mongers, they are not real freedom fighters.

Golan007:


Don't you ever comment when we are admonishing our own.

My brothers and sisters on scholarship are just lamenting non-payment of their dues whilst the elite are stealing billions without conscience.

Do not tell us what we should accept. We would determine that ourselves.

how his comments become a problem to u more than the points the writer mentioned, what is the difference between you and those the writer accused of been complicit in the corruption scandal? Or He comes from tribe u love to hate.

Hmmmmmm

mrvitalis:

Shut up ...the money is there money , let their brothers eat it ...maybe if we leave their oil money they can eat 50% and use 50% to work ... instead of this 25% they are getting

FOR YOUR MIND YOU DON TALK SENSE ABI? YOU ARE A BENEFICIARY OF CORRUPTION.

Arrewa:
Niger Delta and hypocrisy 5,6

no doubt! U said it as it is. The poor CITIZENS of the Niger Delta region are being EXPLOITED. lol

desiredhome:


You are a criminal.......if the thieves cannot work with 25% is it 50% they will use?

I support! Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. -Albert Einstein.

mrvitalis:

Shut up ...the money is there money , let their brothers eat it ...maybe if we leave their oil money they can eat 50% and use 50% to work ... instead of this 25% they are getting

No wonder Imo state has never had any reasonable leader for ages..


What nonsense comment..


I keep saying this that Imo state is totally useless..

Getsaved:
OPINION : Fredrick Nwabufo: Asari Dokubo, Edwin Clark, ND Avengers; why no outrage over iniquity at NDDC?

There is no executive or administrative corruption without civil partnerships. What we often see on the surface as corruption in government agencies is deeply tap-rooted — with connectors to social crusaders, polemists, activists and civic groups. Corruption in Nigeria has a long value chain.

The probe of the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) over serious allegations of corruption by the national assembly is two peas in a pod. The NDDC is like a cookie jar, those probing and those under probe all have their hands stuck in it.

Last Thursday, Kemebradikumo Pondei, acting managing director of the NDDC, stormed out of a session with the house of representatives panel investigating the agency. He accused Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, chairman of the house committee on NDDC, of complicity in the fraud at the commission. He said the committee chairman cannot sit in judgment on a case in which he is a suspect.

A similar spectacle played out at the senate a few weeks ago. The NDDC management and Godswill Akpabio, minister of Niger Delta affairs, as a coterie, traded recriminations with the senate committee probing the agency for alleged N81.5 billion fraud.

Peter Nwaoboshi, chairman of the senate committee on NDDC, accused Akpabio of commandeering a N300 million fencing contract from the commission. The minister, not to be out-shamed, accused the senator of expropriating a N3.6 billion contract using 11 phony companies.

Do you think anything worth the time of Nigerians – beyond the entertainment value of the live sessions – can fall out of these probes? I do not think so. I have witnessed enough probes by the national assembly over the years — even with all the theatrics and fireworks – to predict how these ones will taper out.

Now, this is the crux of the probes. The probes are essentially about deal-brokering. The audit of the operations of the NDDC from 2001 and 2019 will bring to the fore lots of interred skeletons involving those at the national assembly and those at the composite quarters of national corruption. Though I believe the process of the audit is already tainted, it must go on.

So, it is a convenient tactic to hold the dirt of the interim management of the NDDC supervising the audit in the air for an eventual entente. Really, what is happening now is a crossfire of blackmail and intimidation. It is the threat of mutually assured destruction before the ‘’meeting at the table of kindreds’’. The probes will go the way of other probes.

Nevertheless, the revelations from these probes should be ammunition for all Nigerians and those directly affected by the sleaze at the NDDC; in this case, the people of the Niger Delta. Why is Chief Edwin Clark, the foremost Ijaw leader, taciturn? Why is he not spitting fire like he often does when issues of resource control and marginalisation of the Niger Delta are on the table? Or is the mindboggling thievery allegedly perpetrated by the sons of the region of no consequence because they are natives?

Where is Asari Dokubo, the defender of the Niger Delta, who has been vociferous on all national issues? Is the sleaze at the NDDC not worth raising hell and threatening apocalypse over? Where are the Niger Delta Avengers? Is the NDDC corruption bazaar not a cause to undertake a peaceful citizen action for? Or do the avengers only avenge when it involves a certain Sani, Musa, Taiwo or Nnamdi?

Why is there no outrage in the Niger Delta?

This same silence of the Niger Delta was palpable during the administration of Goodluck Jonathan which was in throes of cosmic allegations of corruption. So, it is clear here that the agitations of the region over the years have a heavy ethnic burden.

Really, we do not hate corruption. We only hate where the corrupt person comes from. Let me rephrase that. Corruption matters to us only when the ethnic background of the accused is in the equation.

The Niger Delta losing its voice at this time of great consequence for the region will always haunt it.

Fredrick Nwabufo is a writer and journalist

Twitter: @FredrickNwabufo

The outrage should be directed to buhari.

NDDC is a federal govt parastatal

Golan007:


Shatap.

I'm from the Niger Delta, itsekiri to be precise and you cannot tell me the money is for the criminals amongst us.

We need roads, water and hospitals of modern standard.

I don't know why you Yeebos would be promoting in another man's land what you would not tolerate.

Shut up..


Face the moniker and stop writing nonsense

Golan007:


Don't you ever comment when we are admonishing our own.

My brothers and sisters on scholarship are just lamenting non-payment of their dues whilst the elite are stealing billions without conscience.

Do not tell us what we should accept. We would determine that ourselves.

The issue is that nobody is admonishing anybody.

Just stop the noise..