The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Saturday said it had interrogated some directors of NDDC for alleged diversion of N5.474 billion meant for curtailing the spread of COVID-19 in the region.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on Saturday said it had interrogated some directors of the Niger Delta Development Commission for alleged diversion of N5.474 billion meant for curtailing the spread of COVID-19 in the region.
ICPC said it was probing alleged diversion of funds, procurement fraud and misappropriation of the agency’s Covid-19 funds.A statement issued by the spokesperson of ICPC, Mrs. Azuka C. Ogugua, said the anti-graft agency was also looking at how NDDC made payments for foreign training during the COVID-19 full lockdown.
The statement said: “Some directors of NDDC were interrogated at the commission’s headquarters recently after months of intelligence gathering, following the receipt of petitions from Nigerians on alleged illegalities and contracts fraud by some officials of the agency.“Top officials of the agency are being investigated for their complicity in an alleged diversion of N5.
“Other allegations being investigated by ICPC include the selling of back-dated contract award letters for projects and awards of contracts that were not captured in the budget of the NDDC.
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