Ndoma-Egba laments interference in NDDC

A former Chairman of the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN, has lamented the �lack of growth� since the creation of the commission in 2000.

Ndoma-Egba said the lack of growth in the commission had deprived it of having �an established tradition�, adding that no board of the NDDC that had survived its full term to be able to have traditions that can be said belonged to the commission.

A statement on Monday, quoted Ndoma-Egba as telling the current Chairman of the NDDC Board, Lauretta Onochie, to always be guided by the law establishing the commission in the conduct of the commission�s affairs.

He said, �By now, apart from the law, we should have had an established tradition, because NDDC was established in the year 2000, that is long enough for certain things to be the tradition. But there is no board of NDDC that has survived its full term. So those traditions haven�t been established, and then there is too much outside interference.�