The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Daniel Pondei, has accused the Senate and House of Representative...
The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission , Daniel Pondei, has accused the Senate and House of Representative Ad-hoc Committees of plotting to scuttle the forensic audit of the Commission by discrediting it in its final report.
He dismissed the allegations as unfounded and orchestrated plot by those mentioned in the contract sleaze to get back at him for daring to name and shame them for holding the Commission and the region hostage for years. He however said the Committee is not perturbed by “spurious claims and accusations regarding its work”.
It continued that, “the IMC is also shocked that the Ad-Hoc committee chose to believe the naysayers who claimed that the NDDC headquarters was not nearing completion; a claim that the IMC denied. Whatever made the Senate Ad-Hoc sit in Abuja to accept a negative report rather than accept the challenge of the IMC to visit the headquarters themselves, for an unbiased assessment, is yet unknown.
“The IMC intends to steer the Commission away from questionable, low-impact projects, with quick-win projects not being excluded), into programmes of regional scale with emphasis on areas already identified in the Niger Delta Action Plan. The programmes will cascade into related projects that will mesh smoothly into a seamless whole on completion.
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