Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has cried out, saying it was not behind a job racket involving payment of N3,500 each from Ogoni women in Rivers State to secure menial jobs in some facilities in the state.
The scheme is running on facebook page and many Ogoni women are understood to have paid up. Now, the management says it has uncovered the scheme and other fraudulent activities by faceless and dubious individuals bent on hood winking the general public and thereby bringing the Commission to disrepute.
The managing director, Joi Nunieh, is said to have been at the receiving end of an orchestrated campaign of deceit and calumny, but the Commission said the MD did not operate any facebook account due to what it called enormous responsibility entrusted on her.
The NDDC advised those who have already fallen victim to the fraudsters to cross check facts with the Commission official website in future circumstances.
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The Commission frowned at these untoward developments at the time efforts are being aggregated by the Interim Management Committee to superintend a forensic auditing and charting a pathway of corporate renaissance.
Meanwhile, the NDDC has donated drugs to check cholera outbreak in Rivers communities such as Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State where lives have been lost.
Presenting the items at the Model Primary Health Centre in Unyeada, Andoni, the NDDC Ag MD said that it was part of the Commission’s efforts to improve health services in the rural communities of the Niger Delta region.
Nunieh, who was represented by the NDDC director special duties, Seigha Glasgow, said the Commission did not hesitate in responding to the cholera outbreak to save lives in the affected communities.
She noted that the Interim Management Committee of the Commission was adopting a quick intervention strategy to address development and health challenges before they became huge problems for people in the rural communities.
Receiving the drugs, the Head of Facility at the Model Primary Health Centre, Dickson Okwagwunu, who said four persons have so far died, observed that cholera was an acute diarrheal disease that could kill within hours if left untreated, noting that 20 cases had been reported in Unyeada since the recent outbreak of the disease in the Andoni communities.
The Unyeada Community Development Chairman, Isaiah Martin, commended the NDDC for its quick intervention and appealed for more assistance in equipping the health centres in the area. He also called for urgent action to tackle the water problem in the area.
