“The House is also concerned that the forensic audit for which the Interim Management Committee was set up is most likely to become a conduit for forensic looting.”
The Niger Delta Renaissance Coalition has raised the alarm over the alleged attempt by the minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswil Akpabio and the NDDC interim management committee to frustrate the pending probe by the Senate and the House of Representatives by resorting to blackmail through various means.
Dr Ojougboh, in a statement by Justice Ovuokeroye the National Coordinator Ojougboh Media Campaign Team, noted that findings of the probe will link and expose saboreurs behind fraudulent act of acquiring massive wealth with NDDC funds, which was made for overall development of the Region, adding that the truth would unveils it’s self following Senate action instituted Adhoc Committee to probe an alleged fraud of N40 billion in the Niger Delta Development Commission , pointing out that the...
He said Kpokpogri, a self-styled anti-graft campaigner, had said during a media briefing that the impending National Assembly probe of Akpabio and the IMC was ‘chasing shadows, and praised Akpabio and said the IMC was the best thing that has happened to the NDDC since inception. He said “Indeed, it has become a regular feature that since the Senate and the House of Representatives decided to take up their constitutional oversight duties by setting up committees to probe the reports of fraudulent contracts and payments, estimated at N40 billion, perpetrated by Akpabio and the IMC in the NDDC in the last few months, fictitious groups, individuals and public relations butterflies have flooded the public space in a desperate bid by the minister and the IMC to blackmail the...
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