The Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change
(NDIMRC), weekend said that the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring
Board ( NCDMB) was not playing ethnic politics.
It would be recalled that the Coordinator, 4BetaNija,
Bapakaye Georgewill recently accused the Board of being biased.
But the oil monitoring group, NDIMRC dismissed the
accusation, describing the Board as transparent and serving the interests of
all Nigerians and fingered Lagos based
Contractors with Fabrication yards for being behind the accusation.
In a press statement signed by its President, Nelly Emma,
Secretary, John Sailor and Public Relations Office (PRO) Stanley Mukoro, the
group gave the Board a clean bill of health, saying that the Lagos based
Contractors do not want anything good for the oil-rich Niger Delta Region.
According to the group, the Board is on course and had never deviated from the Federal Government's
policy on the development of local content.
"We want to express our disappointment with the recent accusation against the Nigerian
Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) by the Coordinator, 4BetaNija, Bapakaye
Georgewill. The Board is on course with its mandate of developing Nigerian Content
holistically. It is not true that the Board has aligned itself exclusively with
certain private interests and not also championing the cause of one section of
Nigeria to the detriment of all others. The Board is not being sectional,
regional or promoting tribal interests to the detriment of other qualified
parts or people of Nigeria. These are cheap blackmail, calculated to paint the
Board in a bad light", the group said.
The group added that;"The management of the Board is
not playing ethnic politics by directing that companies in the sector move
their operations to a particular region. We want to make the coordinator of
4BetaNija to know that it was the directive of the Federal Government to
multinational oil companies to relocate to their host States and so it is wrong
for the Board to be accused of carrying out tribal, ethnic or regional
sentiments on the relocation of oil companies to their host States. This
directive of the Federal Government must be enforced".
According to the group also;"To the best of our
knowledge, NCDMB has been transparent in the protection of all Nigerians and
never for once favour a particular ethnic group or private investor. The
activities of the Board are not partisan.The Board has been fair to all
Nigerians and the records are there for all to see. The coordinator of
4BetaNija should not deceive Nigerians and should endeavor to get his facts
right".
The oil monitoring group said it was not true that the Board
has taken over the mandate of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC),
adding that;" The Board is fulfilling it's mandate of developing local
content and not in any competition with the NDDC in the development of the
Niger Delta region. We want to make it clear to the coordinator of 4BetaNija
and his sponsors that the Board that we know very well is not biased in
anyway".
"The present Board appointed by President Muhammadu
Buhari is doing a good job, the current Board is doing the right thing as being
directed by the Minister of state for Petroleum.Those behind the accusation
against the NCDMB are hired by very well
known Lagos Contractors and they are doing all this because they have
come to realised that President Buhari wants nothing but the best for the
sector and doing everything possible to frustrate the efforts of the Federal
Government.These Lagos based Contractors with Fabrication yards who do not want
the good of the Niger Delta Region should be watched, they should be
investigated properly", the group stated.
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