NDCC Mega Scam: Lack Of Valid Information delayed Probe.

 

  

    Source: Punch 16 August, 2020

The adhoc committee set up to unravel the alleged financial recklessness by the interim management committee of the NDDC had proposed an internal mechanism to investigate the lawmakers listed by the agency to have secured multi billion naira contracts without executing them. 

Their has been echo for justice over the billions of naira stolen from the commission, even as a member of the NDDC Forensic audit committee, Prof. Isa Sadiq Raddah, lament that not lesser than 12,000 projects, some which have been financed has been abandoned. 

Speaking at a workshop organized by the Network for Justice on Budget Monitoring and Tracking in Sokoto, Raddah who is a member of the presidential advisory committee against corruption said that 1,700 contractors disappeared after taking mobilization fees from the commission. 

He lament that NDDC for 20 years has collected $140billion. which is equivalent to N116trillion in naira. The large sum of fund was carted away  by their young youths, agitators, leaders,      activists and now the Niger Delta known for it's excess crude is as bad as the many rural areas you find in Northern Nigeria. 

Meanwhile, the chairman of the Senate panel tasked with the responsibility of carrying out    the probe within four weeks, Senator Ayo Akinyelure, lament that the adhoc committee  did not provide the necessary details that could assist in executing the task. 

Akinyelure also said the probe of a fresh   petition against the Managing Director of the NDDC, Prof. Daniel Pondei would wait till September when the National Assembly    resumes its current annual vacation .

He said his committee members who will need sufficient time to study all the allegations contained in the petition, were currently not available following the adjournment of legislative activities till September 15.