Daniel Efe/Port Harcourt
The new
Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr.
Akwagaga Lelegima Enyia, has promised to bring positive change to the
Commission.
In a press
statement signed by Charles Obi Odili, Director of Corporate Affairs, said
Akwagaga made the pledge during a press briefing shortly after her arrival at
the NDDC headquarters in Port Harcourt to assume duties as the new Chief
Executive Officer of the interventionist agency.
She stated:
“I have been charged to do things right and we will start to do things right by
the grace of God. By the time I am through with my assignment, there will be a
positive change in NDDC. I believe God will help me.”
Akwagaga
took over the leadership of the NDDC from Prof Nelson Brambaifa, who led an
interim management that was dissolved on August 27, 2019.
The new
Chief Executive Officer said: “I have a mandate to oversee the smooth running
of the NDDC until the substantive board is cleared to assume office. I believe
that if we work together, we will achieve the objectives for which the NDDC was
set up.
“To see that
this foremost interventionist agency will progress and prosper during this
short period, I appeal to the press to cooperate with us to see that the goals
of setting up this commission is achieved.”
The Acting
Managing Director also addressed management and staff of the Commission, urging
them to play their own parts in facilitating the rapid development of the Niger
Delta region. She noted: “If everyone does his or her bit, we will succeed in
turning things around for good in NDDC.”
She promised
to sanitize the commission and restore it to its former glory, stating that if
everyone discharged their duties diligently, the negative image of the
Commission would be corrected and people would want to be associated with it.
Akwagaga, a specialist in marine biology, became a substantive Director in NDDC in April 2010 and was in charge of the Agriculture and Fisheries Directorate.
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She
graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from the University of Port
Harcourt in 1983 and has Master of Philosophy and a PhD in Marine Biology from
the River State University.
Akwagaga,
who was born on February 2, 1962 in Port Harcourt to parents from Tombia
Ekpetiama town in Bayelsa State is from Rivers State by marriage. She joined
the Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission, OMPADEC, as Assistant
Director, Fisheries in 1993.
Charles Obi
Odili
Director,
Corporate Affairs.