Buhari sacks Pondei led NDDC IMC

President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei-led Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and appointed Mr Effiong Okon Akwa as the Interim Administrator of the Commission, on Saturday.

Akwa, was until his new appointment, was the Acting Executive Director, Finance and Administration, of the NDDC, under the Pondei-led Interim Management Committee (IMC). According to a statement issued Saturday night by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, Akwa would henceforth oversee the affairs of the Commission till the end of the ongoing forensic auditing of the interventionist agency.

“President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of an interim administrator to oversee the affairs of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). “He is Mr Effiong Okon Akwa, the Ag. Executive Director, Finance and Administration of the Commission, who is to 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 a plethora of litigation and a restraining order issued recently against the Interim Management Committee of the NDDC by a Federal High Court in Abuja”, the statement said.