ICPC said Ita, in one instance, facilitated the payment of ₦20 million into the account of one of the NGOs, which was then transferred to a bank account of a third party. Corruption ICPC Nigeria
• Activist faults commission’s board composition, urges reviewThe Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission has accused a director in the Niger Delta Development Commission , Mr. Solomon Okpa Ita, of using Non-Governmental Organisations as fronts to embezzle government money.ICPC’s Spokesperson, Rasheedat Okoduwa, in a statement yesterday in Abuja, alleged that the money had been used to acquire property under contention.
She further alleged that the third party, while acting on instructions from the director, was said to have transferred the same amount to one Ita Williams Okpa, for onward handing over to the director. Meanwhile, a rights activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has faulted the composition of the board of the NDDC, alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari breached the rotational clause in the enabling law establishing the interventionist agency.
The activist, who urged a reversal of the composition of the board in the interest of peace in the Niger Delta region, claimed that the current managing director-nominee, Chief Bernard Okumagba, an Okere-Urhobo native of Warri, was not from an oil-producing area as spelt out in the extant law, adding that in the spirit of justice, the position and that of chairman should go to the Itsekiri as the “highest producer of crude oil in Delta State.
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