Sunday Aborisade and Leke Baiyewu Barring a last-minute change of plan, both the Senate and the House of Representatives will to pass its verdict on the alleged illegal spending and mismanagement by
the Interim Management Commission of the Niger Delta Development Commission on Thursday .
The adjournment was after the acting Managing Director of NDDC, Prof. Daniel Pondei, collapsed while being grilled by the panel, and the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, had a dramatic engagement with the lawmakers, during which he accused members of the National Assembly of getting 60 per cent of contracts from the commission.
A prominent member of the committee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, disclosed that the panel planned to lay its report on before adjournment.
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