The NDDC Contract Saga: Whitsle Blower 'Cairo Ojougboh' Triumph

Source:SAHARAREPORTERS,NY Jul 28, 2020

                                   

The Minister of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Godswil Akpabio has finally submitted the list of beneficiaries of
contracts from the commission to the
House of Representatives Speaker, Femi
Gbajabiamila.

The beneficiaries according to a document
sent by the Minister include a judge, former
governors, All Progressive Congress chieftains,
traditional rulers, army officers, senior police
officers and EFCC officials.

This is asides lawmakers on the list sent by
the minister.


The former Akwa Ibom State governor was
responding to an Ultimatum by Gbajabiamila,
who have given him 48 hours to name the
lawmakers, who got contracts from the commission or face the "wrath of the House".

According to the Nation Newspaper, a document recently released while appearing
before a house panel probing the NDDC on
"contracts award fraud" showed that police
officers, officers from other security agencies
and judiciary officers also got NDDC contracts
worth billions of dollars over the years.


Nevertheless, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, the
chairman of the Senate committee on Niger 
Delta dared Godswil Akpabio over the list of
lawmakers who allegedly got contracts from the NDDC. The minister had earlier released      the names of federal lawmakers involved including Nwaoboshi who had 53 projects against his name.

Nwaoboshi in a reaction to Akpabio's list said
the allegation has no bearing on the truth. He  also dared the minister to send the list to
other security agencies if the allegation can be defended.


In another report, as more secrets continue to
unfold to the public on the rot in NDDC, the Delta lawmaker, Senator James Manager, says 
he didn't benefit from the contract. Manager,
who was a former chairman of the Senate committee on Niger Delta Affairs, disclosed
while reacting to allegations from the "executive director", project of the  agency  Cairo Ojougboh.

Ojougboh had accused the senator of getting
contracts from the commission, The Nation
report.

Senator James Manager threaten legal action
against the Whitsle blower; Cairo Ojougboh.