More trouble for NDDC as Auditor-General queries extra budgetary spending

There seems to be more trouble for the Management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) at the House of Representatives on the strength of queries by the Auditor General of the Federation over certain expenditures at the interventionist agency.

There seems to be more trouble for the Management of the Niger Delta Development Commission at the House of Representatives on the strength of queries by the Auditor General of the Federation over certain expenditures at the interventionist agency.

The commission’s response is that the resort to the award of emergency contracts was to ensure that peace prevailed in the regime, and that there was no way it could identify projects such as roads and other infrastructures which might need emergency attention.The AuGF queried the payment of N199.5 million by the commission for the supply of school desks in Delta State .

The NDDC did not state whether the N199,500,000 covered the cost of the 40,000 desks distributed in the 10 locations, or the 4000 units awarded to each contractor. The Commission confirmed the transfer of fund from its Union Bank account to what the Auditor General called an undisclosed account of N3,118, 000,000.

It accused the commission of making unauthorised transfer of funds to the personal account of some individuals as well as well as some undisclosed accounts, saying that the sum of N40 million was transferred by the commission to the personal account of a former director.

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