Senate panel asks NDDC to refund 'unjustifiable funds' paid to staff

The panel also recommended that henceforth, the NDDC report directly to President Muhammadu Buhari

These are part of the recommendations read out by the chairman of the committee, Olubunmi Adetumbi, on Thursday.

He made this statement at the investigative hearing on the N40 billion corruption allegation against the commission. The lawmakers said within the last three months, the commission has spent over N40 billion of the commission’s fund “without recourse to established processes of funds disbursement which has opened up further suspicion among stakeholders of the Niger Delta Region.”

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