In response to the recent protest and outcry by Nigerian Students studying abroad on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediately pay the students tuition fees and other benefits.
The commission’s Director for Corporate Affairs, Charles Obi Odili, made this known in a press release, Tuesday, August 4, 2020 while explaining that the delay was caused by the demised of the then Executive Director for Finance and Administration Mr Ibanga Etang.
Morenews reported recently how Nigerian Students studying abroad on NDDC scholarship protested what they called abandonment by the commission asking the federal government to intervene by paying their tuition fees and other allowances to enable to return to classes.
It was learnt that the stranded students were facing serious hardship and hunger in the foreign land.
Odili revealed that the delay in the remittance of the fees for these scholars was caused by the sudden death of the then Acting Executive Director for Finance and Administration, EDFA, of the commission, Chief Ibanga Etang.
He stated, “Under the Commission’s finance protocol, only the Executive Director (Finance) and the Executive Director (Projects) can sign for the release of funds from the Commission’s domiciliary accounts with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. With the death of Chief Etang, the remittance has to await the appointment of a new EDFA”
