“The National Assembly should deploy all tools available to it to follow the money.”
GCGG’s Country Director, Chris Udoh, said during a media briefing that the interim committee’s narrative that “disgruntled elites who are uncomfortable with the forensic audit of the commission have mobilized resources to demonize them” was untenable and indefensible.
The Group wondered why the IMC’s infractions keep escalating by the day, noting that the interim committee had made complete payment to a company for construction of the head office building when less than 70 percent of the job had been done; and that the interim committee had made payments running into billions of Naira for phony contracts covering Water Hyacinths, Emergency Road Construction and River Desilting, Cholera Vaccine and Lasa Fever Protective Kits.
The GCGG expressed gratitude to both chambers of the National Assembly for rising up and exercising its oversight functions on the NDDC, saying “the actors at NDDC must be made to appreciate that they can be restrained by the limiting structures and facilities of oversight powers of the National Assembly. The National Assembly should deploy all tools available to it to follow the money”.
“All contracts documents must be produced and complete TSA Schedules tendered. Evidence of delivery of supplied items not only to the NDDC stores but to end users with dates and acknowledgments must be made available. The National Assembly must engage in rigorous examinations, even to the point of brain scan that would reveal lying, doubts and the smallest hesitation. This has become necessary because the stories coming out of NDDC in the last three months are very disheartening.
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