Group Faults Restructuring of DESOPADEC after NDDC Pattern
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Group under the aegis of Centre for the Vulnerable and Underprivileged, CENTREP has faulted the restructuring of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC after the pattern of Niger-Delta Development Commission.
Reacting to the recent passage of amended DESOPADEC Bill, Executive Director of CENTREP, Mr. Oghenejabor Ikimi, in a statement said restructuring DESOPADEC like NDDC would not by any stroke of imagination reposition the commission, as NDDC even with her present structure is riddled with massive corruption, greed and mismanagement.
Advising Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa to insulate DESOPADEC from politics by appointing tested technocrats to man the commission to realize its mandate, Ikimi revealed, “There is undue political interference in the day-to-day management and finances of NDDC by both the Presidency and members of the National Assembly under the watch of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan
“We are not oblivious of the fact that undue political interference accounts for the earth quaking level of corruption, greed and mismanagement afflicting the commission.
“We make bold to state that as long as the day to day running and finances of DESOPADEC is subjected to undue political interference whether it is structured like NDDC or otherwise, the commission would remain a cesspool of corruption as it was the case under the ex-governor’s watch.”