Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youth group on Monday commended President Muhammadu Buhari for setting up a Steering
Management Committee to probe the account of the Niger Delta Development
Commission (NDDC).
The youths also appeal to the oil-producing state
governors to support the committee probing the financial records of the NDDC so
that the region would be developed.
The PDP Youth Vanguard alleged that while the
region was suffering as a result of misappropriation of the funds meant for the
development of the region, the people vested with the authority to utilise the
funds were having a bazaar and looting the commonwealth of the people.
Specifically, the youth in a statement issued by
its National Chairman, James Efe Akpofure, noted that not more than two
senators and other stakeholders were suspected in the looting spree, all in the
name of carrying out fathom projects for the people.
The group added that the setting up of forensic
audit committee by President Buhari would unravel those behind the homogenous
corruption perpetuated in the NDDC, who enriched themselves at the expense of
the region.
It said: "We are appealing to the governors to
support the committee to unravel those behind the underdevelopment of the
region. The region has actually suffered in the hands of the few who looted the
commonwealth meant for the development of the oil states.
"We commended President Buhari for setting up
the committee to audit the financial records of the NDDC, so that for the first
time, accountability will be brought to bear in the Commission.
"The region cannot continue to suffer in the
hands of the few, who because of one connection or the other, milk the oil
states of the funds meant for the development of the entire region.
"The earlier we put an end to this criminality
the better for us, as we want the region to develop like other advanced
nations. Few people cannot continue to deprive the majority of what is meant
for them."
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