The official, Joy Nunieh, said it was after her refusal to take an oath of secrecy that Mr Akpabio started plotting her removal.
Mr Godswill Akpabio, Ms Joy Nunieh at the VIP lounge of the Port Harcourt International Airport in JanuaryA former acting managing director of the interim management committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission , Joy Nunieh, has accused the Minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio, of fraud.
The former acting MD, who made her claim in an interview with journalists shortly after appearing before the Senate ad-hoc committee investigating NDDC on Friday, said she would have been jailed if she had succumbed to Mr Akpabio’s ‘oath of secrecy’.She said Mr Akpabio pressured her three times to place her “under oath” to the extent that they took the matter to the presidential villa, when she vehemently refused.
The former official said it was after her refusal to take the oath that Mr Akpabio started plotting her removal. Speaking Saturday night on Arise TV, Mr Akpabio described Ms Nunieh as a “disgruntled former MD who does not know that offices come and go.”He said the reason for the controversies was because a forensic audit was ordered and those who have questions to answer are behind the attacks.Ms Nunieh assumed office as the acting MD of NDDC after the removal of Akwagaga Enyia in October 2019, but she was sacked four months later as the crisis rocking the commission over abuse of funds kept mounting.
“Nobody makes payments in NDDC without Godswill Akpabio’s consent. When we first came to NDDC on the day of the inauguration, we were going to the camp, he told me Madam MD, if you don’t do what I said, the same pen I used in signing your letter; that is the same pen I will use in removing you. The lawmakers said within the last three months, the commission has spent over N40 billion of the commission’s fund without recourse to established processes of funds disbursement.
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