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Women Demand Sack Of NDDC Com’ttee, Release Of Report
Scores of women besieged the corporate headquarters of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), at the Eastern Bypass area of Port Harcourt on Tuesday to demand sack of the Interim Management Committee (IMC), of the Commission.
They also demanded the constitution of a new board for the organisation.
The women, who were armed with placards with varying inscriptions like “Malami leave NDDC Alone”, “We want a Board for NDDC”; “Sack illegal Interim Committee/Sole Administrator”, also demanded for the publication of forensic audit report carried out in the commission and submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari as well as the sack of the sole administrator.
Recall that the Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, had presented the final report of the forensic audit of the NDDC to President, Muhammadu Buhari on September 2.
The minister, while presenting the documents conveyed in 17 “Ghana Must Go bags” to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who represented Buhari pleaded for urgent actions on the recommendation of the report.
Akpabio disclosed that the auditors had concluded the examination and documentation of a total 13,777 contracts for projects and programmes awarded to contractors and consultants in all Niger Delta States from 2001-August 2019, at a total final contract value of N3,274.206,032,213.24.
But since September, the report was submitted, no white paper has been released on it by the federal government.
The federal government has also not constituted a new board for the agency.
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Rivers Judiciary Denies Issuing Court Order Stopping SOLAD from Swearing in RSCSC Members
The Rivers State Judiciary has denied a media report claiming that Justice Frank Onyiri of the State High Court issued an injunction order restraining the Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd), from inaugurating the newly appointed members of the Rivers State Civil Service Commission (RSCSC).
In a statement issued by the Deputy Chief Registrar in charge of litigation at the High Court, Menenen Poromon (Esq), the state Judiciary disassociated itself from the report, describing it as malicious and fabricated.
The statement emphasized that the report was a falsehood and a misrepresentation of what transpeared in the court.
Poromon clarified that no such order was issued by Justice Onyiri or any other judge of the High Court of the state and urged the public to disregard the information, as it lacked any iota of truth.
The statement however advised the public to verify any information concerning the state Judiciary directly from the office of the Chief Registrar, High Court of the State, to avoid spreading of misinformation.