Nigeria, May 19 -- Odinkalu, however, believes the mandates of the Commission have been largely unfunded.

Odinkalu was reacting to a recent publication on a provisional rail operating and track access license secured by the South West Development Commission (SWDC) from the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), and the reactions portraying the SEDC leadership as docile.

He alleged that President Bola Tinubu did not create the Regional Development Commissions, RDCs, for development, but rather as appointments for the boys.

According to him, the leadership of the Commissions, as a result, 'are casting about for what to do, while the Ministry at the center, which is supposed to co-ordinate them, is fleecing them.'

The rights activist expre...