{"id":21578,"date":"2019-10-17T21:44:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T21:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=21578"},"modified":"2019-10-17T21:44:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T21:44:27","slug":"president-buhari-orders-forensic-audit-of-nddc-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=21578","title":{"rendered":"President Buhari orders forensic audit of NDDC activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Release<\/strong><br \/><br \/> By Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity)<br \/><br \/> Worried by the persistent criticisms of the operations of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a forensic audit of the operations of the organisation from 2001 to 2019.<br \/><br \/> Receiving governors of the states that make up the Commission, led by Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State on Thursday in Abuja, President Buhari\u00a0\u00a0said what is presently on the ground\u00a0\u00a0in the South south region does not justify the huge resources that have been made available to the organisation.<br \/><br \/> \u201cI try to follow the Act setting up these institutions especially the NDDC. With the amount of money that the Federal Government has religiously allocated to the NDDC, we will like to see the results on the ground; those that are responsible for that have to explain certain issues.<br \/><br \/> \u201cThe projects said to have been done must be verifiable. You just cannot say you spent so much billions and when the place is visited, one cannot see the structures that have been done.\u00a0\u00a0The consultants must also prove that they are competent, \u201cthe President said.<br \/><br \/> President Buhari admitted that developing the Niger Delta area required enormous resources compared to other parts of the country with firmer lands.<br \/><br \/> \u201cI am acutely aware, with my experience, that projects in your area are very expensive; that is why if any job is given, we must make sure that the company is competent and has the capacity to do it well with experienced consultants,\u201d the President added.<br \/><br \/> He however said that he would wait for the report of the audit before deciding on the next line of action regarding the organisation.<br \/><br \/> Governor Dickson had earlier expressed the disappointment of other governors with the operations of the NDDC, which they said was characterised by poor choice of projects, shoddy handling, uncompleted\u00a0\u00a0jobs and lack of the required support for the efforts of the states and local government administration in the region covered by\u00a0\u00a0the organisation.<br \/><br \/> He, therefore, called for the repositioning of the NDDC in order to achieve the objectives for which it was set up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release By Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity) Worried by the persistent criticisms of the operations of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a forensic audit of the operations of the organisation from 2001 to 2019. Receiving governors of the states that make up the Commission, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}