OF NIGER DELTA DEVELOPMENT
COMMISSION(NNDC)AND A NEW DAWN
by Hon Eseme Eyiboh
"IN EVERY DIFFICULTIES LIES OPPORTUNITY" Albert Einstern.
Our democracy has thrown up the emergence of quasi ethnic sentiments,
unbridled cultivation of poor national consciousness,weak institutions, poor
perception of government, deteriorating national values and insecurity. In
context, the present government's CHANGE MANTRA is intended as it were, to
jumpstart a new thinking with the recruitment of new national leadership with
lens to ignite our strength in diversity; trigger new opportunities founded on
ethical values, national integrity and to drive our development process.
In furtherance to this vision, the present administration has
demonstrated commitment to accelerate these core values in the appointment of
vital corp of men and women with design thinking and leading edge
characters to drive our national institutions.
Therefore, Niger Delta Development Commission being a creation and
creature of the Act of Parliament as an interventionist agency has the
intended consequence in the words of Jeremy Bentham's felicitous calculus -
"the success of the government is measured by the happiness of the greater
majority, masses"; and has benefited from this new order.
The recent strategic leadership recruitment into the Niger Delta
Development Commission occasioned the emergence of Obong Nsima Ekere as its
Managing Director. This appointment has not only resurrected the
collective human and infrastructure developmental urges and aspirations
of the people and government but has also enhanced salient answers to our many
inherent institutional weaknesses and threats. This leadership has developed
competencies in galvanizing public feedback loop, triggered honest behaviour of
citizens and deliberately travel roads less taken, the road that requires
innovations, ingenuity and inspirational leadership to vindicate its focus as a
nexus between the people and government.
Today, Niger Delta Development Commission by its recent proactive
initiatives, has brought about regional integration,youth empowerment,
infrastructure upgrade, ethical and institutional integrity, national
development and positive perception of government devoid of threats to public
safety and the state.
From these observable positive changes in the narrative of this
erstwhile cesspool of corruption, institutional and leadership deficit
and hot bed for agitations and poor national consciousness; a new dawn has
risen in the horizon of the region in particular and the nation in general.
On all scores and flowing from the fountain of enormous goodwill, the
current leadership of Niger Delta Development Commission has shown sufficient
understanding of the necessity of the change, and has provided the foundation
for defining the best approach to manage the intended reasons for the
interventionist agency.
Now that the reversal of the era of ineptitude and crass breach of
accountability and responsibility has berthed, the people of the region,
government and all stakeholders must earnestly demonstrate constructive and
symbiotic synergy with reformed mindsets to minimise uncertainty and distrust
and consolidate on this rebirth process.
Hon Eseme Eyiboh is a public communication consultant, Democratic
Governance Project.
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