I just told you that we have records to show that most of the contracts in the NDDC are given to members of the National Assembly but you (Boma) don’t know about it. The two chairmen (Senate and Ho...
Acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission, Prof Kemebradikumo Pondei, fainting during his appearance before the House of Representatives Committee probing the NDDC finances at National Assembly in Abuja...on Monday. Photo: Olatunji Obasa
Also on Monday, the NDDC acting Managing Director, Prof Kemebradikumo Pondei, slumped while being interrogated by the lawmakers. Pondei was the first to make his presentation when the committee resumed its sitting at 12noon on Monday. “It was not N1.5bn please. The figure is shown clearly. It is N1.32bn,” he argued. The lawmakers also asked from which budget it was taken.
Pondei said, “This money was part of the N2.5bn that was for the forensic audit in the 2019 budget, out of which N1.2bn was approved. Out of that, N318bn was approved for the lead forensic auditors, and only a small percentage has been paid out before the budget expired on the 31st .” Oke had barely finished speaking when Pondei collapsed where he was sitting and he was carried by security agents and his aides out of the Conference Room 231, venue of the hearing.
While the deputy chairman of the committee interrupted Akpabio, another lawmaker, Goodhead Boma, asked the minister to name the beneficiaries among the lawmakers. Another member, Shehu Koko, however, said, “You were on air. You said they gave contracts to the chairman of the committee in April 2019. And the chairman was appointed in November. He was not a chairman of the committee. He was not even a member of the House.”
The lawmakers, however, disagreed with the claim. A member, Goodhead Boma, asked if there was pandemic when Ojuogboh was appointed. “My permanent secretary wrote seven letters to her. Even to attend the Federal Executive Council meeting on the 5th of February to come and give her scorecard, she refused to attend. She felt she was bigger than the minister and her budget was higher than the ministry’s.
The minister also denied asking Nunieh or any member of the IMC for N10bn to be spent as Christmas bonus. “That allegation is false and it is from the pit of hell,” he said.There was heavy security presence in and around the National Assembly Complex as a result.
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