“Urgent need to investigate alleged financial recklessness in the NDDC.”
This is contrary to a claim by Citizens Quest for Truth Initiative , which falsely claimed that the Senate probe of the accounts of NDDC is an “affront to the ongoing forensic audit of the Commission…and an affront to the directives of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, who instituted the forensic audit.”
Under the Nigerian Constitution of 1999 the National Assembly is empowered to oversight activities of the executive branch of government including all ministries, departments, and agencies. It is not a right that can be abridged or subsumed under the executive branch as the Ndukwe’s of this world have been made to believe.
Senator Sekibo had noted that “While the President’s action of setting up an IMC and the forensic audit may have been conceived to forestall the financial recklessness of the commission and reposition it for fast-tracking of the development of the region, the IMC has been more bedevilled with the same financial misuse, misapplication, misappropriation or outright fraud in the management of the funds of the commission.
NDRC also reminded the traducers of the National Assembly that President Buhari on 17th October, 2019 ordered that a Forensic Audit be carried out in NDDC, from 2000 to 2019. The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, who is also supervisor over NDDC, told Nigerians that the Interim Management Committee will complete the Forensic Audit in maximum of six months.
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