Former Governors Orji Uzor Kalu, James Ibori and Emmanuel Uduaghan have distanced themselves from being beneficiaries of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) contracts.
Former Governors Orji Uzor Kalu, James Ibori and Emmanuel Uduaghan have distanced themselves from being beneficiaries of Niger Delta Development Commission contracts.
But Kalu, who is the chief whip of the Senate and a former governor of Abia State, said Akpabio must have mentioned his name for facilitating some road projects that had yet to be paid for by the commission. Kalu said: “The roads I requested for intervention as mentioned by the minister were repairs of Ezere-Acha-Ndiokoukwu Road; Amaubiri-Eluama-Uru Ring Road, Lokpaukwu, Umuchieze; Ndi Oji Abam-Atan Road; the Okafia-Ozuitem-Bende road and Ozu-Amuru-Abam Road.
“As a community leader, I do not intend to stop my interventions on roads in NDDC states because all the states need good roads. Good roads help to drive the economy.“Therefore, I believe the NDDC forensic audit should focus on the missing funds and not works done. “The honourable minister is my good old friend. We have been friends even before I became a governor.
He said the level the NDDC had degenerated was at variance with the dream the Niger Delta governors of his time had while fighting for its creation by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration. “Ibori said that the NDDC we have today is a product of his personal sacrifice as well as those of his Niger Delta colleagues who rose to the occasion to override the veto of President Obasanjo who refused to accent to the NDDC Bill at the time.“Watching the level the NDDC has degenerated to, it has become a tragedy.
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