Network Advancement Program for Disaster Risk Reduction (NAPPDRR), a nongovernmental organisation has faulted the spate of media attacks on the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Obong Nsima Ekere, describing it as “cheap blackmail and a deliberately orchestrated politically-motivated campaign.”
The President of the group, Hon. al mustapher Emem Edoho, said the campaign would only heat up the polity ahead of the 2019 election year.
In the recent times, there has been sustained media campaign against the NDDC by a faceless integrity group, alleging the Commission was reeking in frauds, abandoned projects and low quality jobs.
The NAPPDRR boss, whose organisation is committed to poverty alleviation, environmental rights protection and socio-economic empowerment for youths in Niger Delta, enjoined the civil society, especially the gullible youths, against being used as cannon fodder by politicians to achieve their political ambitions.
He noted that the NDDC under Ekere has been doing its utmost to ensure most urban and community roads are fixed, while contractors who abandoned their jobs have been ordered to return to sites.
“The current NDDC leadership is just few months in office and has been doing its best to ensure that tension is calmed in the region, but some faceless groups sponsored by political powers would not allow development to flow,” he stressed.