Few hours after the NDDC Acting Chairman, Prof Daniel Pondei slumped at the National Assembly probe, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, detonated a time bomb by accusing the lawmakers of cornering about 60 per cent of the NDDC contracts.
Without mincing words, the minister Akpabio revealed this on Monday during a session of the House of Representatives committee probing the activities and financial spendings of the commission.
Akpabio said: “Most of the contracts at NDDC are handled by members of the National Assembly.That is how it has been.”
He said that he was not aware that the Interim Management Committee of the agency spent N85bn in recent months for unapproved projects.
Akpabio went further to disclose that the former Acting Managing Director of the commission, Joy Nunieh, was sacked because of her qualifications.
He said Nunieh does not have a National Youth Service Corps certificate as mandated by law for public servants of her level.
