Political Activist and previous Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Monday, gave the Federal Government a 14-day final proposal to revoke its unlawful arrangement of a Sole Administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) or face legitimate outcomes.
Straightforward in an articulation in Abuja likewise demanded that the protection set up by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio for designating his cousin, Effiong Akwa, as the new helmsman of the NDDC, was an affront to the individuals of Niger Delta Region.
He cautioned the Federal Government to quickly name a considerable board for the NDDC as accommodated in its foundation Act or face enormous roads fights in the Niger Delta district and claim after the termination of his final proposal.
He depicted Akpabio's case that Sole Administrators had regulated the illicit relationships of the intercession office in the past as indefensible saying "lawlessness 20 years back remaining parts wrongdoing today and tomorrow."
The Bayelsa-conceived political dissident demanded that that there is no law that says that a legal leading group of the NDDC can't be set up while Akpabio is doing his fake criminological review at the Commission.
He required the capture and indictment of Akpabio for disregarding his Oath of Office by neutralizing the interest of the individuals of Niger Delta and the advancement of the locale.
He approached the Governors of the Niger Delta states, Ijaw Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, conventional rulers and all government officials from the zone to make some noise to save the NDDC and stop endeavors to obliterate it and likewise the expectations and desires of Niger Deltans - living and those yet unborn.
"I appeal to all pioneers in the Niger Delta to end their quietness on this criminal seize of the NDDC by Akpabio and his associates in the Presidency as God won't pardon us on the off chance that we permit the eventual fate of our youngsters to be sold by avaricious aspiration and illicit conspiring at the Commission," Frank said.
He similarly approached the National Assembly, particularly the heads of the resistance gathering - Minority Leader in the Senate, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe and his partner in the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndidi Elumelu - to guarantee that the 2021 Budget of the NDDC isn't affirmed or given over to Effiong Akwa for ahead conveyance to his uncle, Akpabio.
He said that inability to act to the public's advantage on this issue would make the National Assembly an associate in the progressing against Niger Delta course of action to unlawfully redirect the assets of the NDDC by one family.
"Minority Leaders in the two chambers should guarantee that the financial plan of the NDDC isn't passed aside from they have decided to help and abet a ploy to capture the improvement of the area.
"They should utilize their situations as resistance pioneers in the National Assembly to guarantee that the individuals of the Niger Delta get most extreme profit by the Commission as far as concrete financial improvements," he said.
He said that the capture of the NDDC by Akpabio omens destruction for the Agency and individuals of the district who have kept on mulling in contemptible destitution occasioned by natural debasement following many years of oil investigation in the locale.
He stated: "The NDDC isn't a family realm where Akpabio can designate his cousin as Sole Administrator.
"It is discouraging that the essential goal of setting up the NDDC was deserted promptly Akpabio took over as Minister and ensured that the office was taken out from the Presidency and set under his pastoral portfolio."
He similarly pledged to legitimate activity against the authority of the National Assembly should they continue to favor the 2021 spending plan of the Commission under the present illicit administration being managed by a Sole Administrator.
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