– As group hails Ndiomu’s appointment
Mkpoikana Udoma
Port Harcourt — Reaction has begun to trail the federal government’s inauguration of an 11-member Special Investigative Panel on oil theft and losses in the country.
This is as the National Security Adviser, Major General. Babagana Monguno, yesterday inaugurated a panel to be chaired by the Interim Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Maj. Gen. Barry Ndiomu, following the escalation of crude oil theft and the significant decline in production, with associated impact on revenue.
While inaugurating the panel, Monguno said Nigeria was facing monumental loss of revenue that ought to have accrued from the sale of crude oil, being the main source of its foreign exchange earnings.
Reacting, the Strategic Communication Committee, SCC, of the Presidential Amnesty Programme lauded the Federal Government for appointing PAP’s Interim Administrator, Maj.-Gen. Barry Ndiomu, to head an 11-man special investigative panel on oil theft.
Ex-agitator and Rivers State, Chairman of SCC, Nature Kieghe Dumale, said the new assignment was an eloquent testimony that Ndiomu was successfully discharging his roles in the amnesty office and making the Ijaw nation proud.
Dumale speaking in Port Harcourt, said the Federal Government was aware that some of the attacks on Ndiomu emanated from disgruntled elements, who were unhappy that the amnesty boss mustered the courage and determination to sanitise PAP.
“We believe that the Federal Government had carefully assessed the performance of Ndiomu in PAP; x-rayed his dogged commitment to reposition the programme without fear or favour and decided to entrust him with this sensitive task as the chairman of a special investigative panel on oil theft.
“We want to appreciate the Federal Government for observing the positive roles Ndiomu has played to realise the mandate of PAP despite efforts by his detractors and enemies of the region.
“We congratulate him, and we want to say to him that the only man, who will not face battles and the only man, who will not have challenges is the man who is doing the wrong thing.
“Many people that have stood up for the right things and for justice and those, who have fought corruption, corruption and injustice has a way of fighting them back”.
Describing Ndiomu as a great son of the Niger Delta, Dumale appealed to all stakeholders in the region to keep encouraging and supporting the amnesty boss.
“We want to thank the stakeholders of the Niger Delta region, opinion leaders, traditional rulers, delegates of the Presidential Amnesty Programme and members of the fourth estate of the realm, who have stood by him. We want to say that corrections and observations he is making has made the PAP to be on track”
Dumale also commended the amnesty boss for instituting the ongoing verification exercise to clean the payroll of PAP and determine the authentic beneficiaries of the programme.
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