Thread by @OpuiyoMike

Meet the new NDDC Boss.

Mr Effiong Okon Akwa, who until his new appointment, was the Acting Executive Director, Finance and Administration, of the NDDC, under the Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei-led Interim Management Committee (IMC).

“President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of an interim administrator to oversee the affairs of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)
Mr Effiong Okon Akwa, the Ag. Executive Director, Finance and Administration of the Commission,

who has assume headship till completion of the forensic audit.
“Mr Akwa is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.“The development became necessary as a result of plethora of litigation and a restraining order

issued against the Interim Management Committee of the NDDC by a Federal High Court in Abuja”, the statement said.
It would be recalled that the administration of the Commission, since it was handed over to the IMC by President Buhari, had been faced

with stiff opposition by various categories of the oil-rich Niger Delta region’s stakeholders.
There had also been varying allegations, including financial impropriety, leveled against the IMC and its leadership, leading to a National Assembly probe and a

short-lived faceoff between the federal lawmakers on one side and the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs and the IMC on the others.