The senate on Sunday said the National Assembly will won't back down on its probe of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. It made the remark while reacting to claims by NDDC Interim Management Committee, IMC, that lawmakers in the National Assembly were behind the fraud in the commission. In a statement by its spokesman,
The senate on Sunday said the National Assembly will won’t back down on its probe of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
In a statement by its spokesman, Senator Akinola Bashiru, the senate described the allegation as baseless and unsubstantiated. Ajibola said no amount of blackmail against lawmakers would stop the National Assembly’s from its ongoing investigations into the financial misappropriation of NDDC. The statement reads: “The attention of the Senate has been drawn to a statement credited to Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, the Executive Director of Projects at the Niger Delta Development Commission under the Interim Management Committee .
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