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NDDC AUDIT: Ijaws Group LED by Ogobri, Demebide Takes Side With Buhari, Backs FG inaugurated 3-Man Interim Committee 


NDDC AUDIT: Ijaws Group LED by Ogobri, Demebide Takes Side With Buhari, Backs FG inaugurated 3-Man Interim Committee 

......Congratulates Cairo Ojougboh, Gbene Joi Nunieh, Ibanga Bassey Etang.

A group,  Ijaw Social Human Right Group (ISHRG) has express support for President Muhammad's Buhari appointed three-man Interim Management Committee to oversee the affairs of the Niger Delta Development Commission.

The Ijaw group expressed readiness to support and work with President Buhari, Senator Godswill Akpabio and the three man interim management committee to oversee the affairs of the NDDC Board.

They made this known on Saturday in Warri during a meeting held by members of Ijaw elites forum and leaders of the group.

  They commended the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio who  inaugurate the three-man steering committee that is headed by Dr. Gbene Joi Nunieh as acting Managing Director, Cairo Ojougboh as acting Executive Director Projects and Chief Ibanga Bassey Etang as acting Executive Director Finance to bring their  wealth of managerial experience to the Commission and the Region to better the lives of the People.

Comrade Jerome Demebide Former National Deputy President of IJAW YOUTH COUNCIL ( IYC) noted that Ijaws are fully in support of the  Committee setup to oversee the commission during its forensic audit and that Non of the Factional IJAW YOUTH COUNCIL ( IYC ) President has the right to speak on behalf of the larger Ijaw Youth Interest, Comrade JEROME DEMEBIDE and TIMI OGOBIRI condemned Barrister Eric Omare publication calling on the cancellation of the three man interim forensic management board.

They further registered their support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s order for forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission’s (NDDC) accounts, expressing optimism that the new board will do a good job probing the past of the commission.

The Ijaw group also echoed their satisfaction with the caliber of those the President has appointed to take over the task of the commission and restore the region to a pathway of infrastructural development, urging appointees to use their wealth of experience and capacity to save the region from infrastructural deficit.

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