'Federal High Court holds that NDDC Board Chairman, Lauretta Onochie, has no executive powers in the day-to-day running of the commission. Check out the full story here: NDDC ExecutivePowers CourtRestrainsOnochie'
A Federal High Court in Warri, Delta State, has held that the Chairman of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission , Lauretta Onochie, has no executive powers in the day-to-day running of the commission.
One Dr Mike Oberabor had dragged the NDDC, Onochie and Ogboku before the Federal High Court, seeking an interpretation of the NDDC Act, 2000 and other relevant statute and documents relating to the running of the commission. He said “the defendant being the Managing Director of the 1st defendant, the Chief Executive Officer and Accounting Officer of the 1st defendant is saddled with the responsibility of the day-to-day running and management of the 1st defendant.”
Part of the enrolled order read: “It is hereby adjudged, ordered and declared as follows, ‘That the 3rd Defendant as the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission is the person statutorily empowered by the NDDC ACT to perform and wield the executive functions, powers and day to day running and management of the Commission to the exclusion of other members of the Board of the NDDC including the 2nd.
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