Niger Delta Development
Commission to Stay
The
Nigerian Government says it has no plans to scrap the Niger
Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in the southern part of the
country.
A member of the House of
Representatives, Jones Akinyugha said in Akure, the Ondo State
capital, south western Nigeria, that those agitating for the
scrapping of NDDC were ignorant of the purpose for which it was
established.
Akinyugha explained that the
federal government established the NDDC to correct the imbalance
in the socio-economic development of the Niger Delta region.
The legislator said that “the
crisis being experienced in the region now stemmed from the
previous neglect of the oil producing region by various
governments”.
Akinyugha said the
establishment of the NDDC and the upward review of the
derivation fund to thirteen per cent had helped in reducing
the crisis in the Niger Delta region.
