Grant waiver to NDDC from TSA – MOSIEND urges Tinubu

Nathan Tamarapreye, Yenagoa

The Movement for the Survival of the Izon Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND) has called on President Bola Tinubu to remove the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) from the Treasury Single Account (TSA).

MOSIEND National President, Dr. Kennedy West made the call in an interview on Saturday in Yenagoa.

West noted that as an interventionist agency, the NDDC does not need to be bogged down by bureaucratic bottlenecks.

West said: “The Federal government should remove NDDC from TSA list to fast-track development. As an interventionist agency, the NDDC has nothing to do with long bureaucratic bottlenecks. 

“That alone is causing a huge setback in development from the time to begin to go through one rigorous process or the other.

“We are sure that Mr President will want to see that in his tenure, he solved issues of the Niger Delta and demands reasonably at least at a logical end before he leaves office.”

He restated the call for the review of the Act establishing the NDDC, saying that some sections of the Act have become a cog in the wheel of progress of the commission.

“There is the need to review the act that created the NDDC in such a manner that such areas that have been a cog in the wheels of progress of NDDC should be reviewed constitutionally and legally brought to the fore.

“Even before now, we have been advocating for it, more so it was also addressed during the summit, where we said that stakeholders should be part of project monitoring and evaluation.

“It is the stakeholders that clamoured for the establishment of the NDDC, even OMPADEC.

“So, how come stakeholders are not part of project monitoring and evaluation? So, this was part of the areas we were advocating and also that the NDDC should be excluded from the TSA.

“This part of the issues that formed our decision to Advocate earlier before now that the NDDC Act should be reviewed and let all those grey areas be addressed permanently,” the MOSIEND president said.