The Peoples Democratic Party on Monday called for an investigation into allegation of fraud, stealing and looting of funds in the Niger Delta Development Commission under the All Progressives Congress
-led administration.
According to him, the public space is awash with allegations of looting of billions of naira from the NDDC meant for the development of the Niger Delta through shady contracts, diversion and shady procurement deals by officials in a manner akin to the looting in the National Health Insurance Scheme. Ologbondiyan said, “This is in addition to flimsy denials on the alleged attempt by certain interests to fraudulently funnel N5.5bn out of the NDDC coffers under the guise of procuring kits for the COVID-19 pandemic, a development which also trails reports that the NDDC had already spent over N1.045bn purportedly for supply of kits and palliatives to Nigerians in nine states.
“Such resort to internal investigation only points to a desperate attempt at concealment, which in turn validates allegations of complicity at very high level. It is more disheartening to note that such humongous looting, manipulations and concealments are going on in a commission like the NDDC under an administration that claims to have zero tolerance for corruption.
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