The Niger-Delta Development Commission, NDDC, is yet to
implement the presidential directive for the payment of the outstanding
allowances of beneficiaries of international scholarship of the Commission.
The Presidency on Friday, August 7, 2020 issued an ultimatum
to the NDDC to clear all pending allowances of the students overseas which
expires Monday.
But a group under the aegis of Niger-Delta Rights Advocates,
NDRA is calling on the Presidency to take an instant action against the
management of the NDDC for failing to meet its obligation.
NDRA in a statement by its Spokesman, Darlington Nwauju is
demanding the immediate settlement of all outstanding tuition fees and stipends
owed the region’s scholars abroad under the NDDC’s foreign scholarship scheme,
“who have been thrown to the streets and exposed to all sorts of risks due to
the failure of the Commission to meet its obligations to these scholars for 2
years running.”
“Our organization is minded of the universal push to banish
illiteracy at all levels and concerns by governments the world over to increase
funding in the educational sector.
“We in the NDRA are saddened that Mr President’s lawful
directive is yet to be complied with, while on the other hand, scholars from a
rich region like the Niger Delta region would be traumatized psychologically
and emotionally for no fault of theirs because the region’s interventionist
Agency is drawn in the web of self-inflicted grotesque, unbridled corruption
and gluttonous acquisition.
“The NDRA is mindful of an unambiguous Presidential directive
to the Commission’s management led by Prof Kema Daniel Pondei, to clear this
national embarrassment.
“We, however, note with regrets that this lawful
presidential directive has as at today (August 17 2020), not been implemented.
“For the avoidance of doubt, we want to opine that
Presidential directives are the mechanisms through which the President
prescribes the conduct of business in the Executive branch and it carries the
force of law. By this directive, the President has declared the plight of these
youngsters as an emergency!
“The NDRA further invites the public to pay attention to
Part VI (Miscellaneous) of the NDDC Establishment Act 2000, specifically
Section 23 which empowers the President & C-in-C of the Armed Forces to,
“issue directive of a general nature or relating generally to matters of policy
with regard to the performance by the Commission of its functions and it SHALL
be the duty of the Commission to comply with the directive”.
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