NDDC: The commission has not performed well and is owing over N2 trillion - Akpabio
- The Niger Delta Development Commission is said to have performed below expectation and owing over N2 trillion
- This was stated by the minister of Niger Delta affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, during his meeting with the management team of the commission
- According to Akpabio, there will be a forensic audit of the funds received and spent by the commission since 2000
The minister of Niger Delta affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has said that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has not performed well since it was established, adding that the commission is owing over N2 trillion.
Legit.ng gathers that this was contained in a statement on Akpabio's official Facebook page on Wednesday, September 4.
According to the statement, the disclosure was made during Akpabio's meeting with the management team of NDDC.
The statement read: “The impact of NDDC on the entire Niger Delta region would have been more if not for those thing militating against development, personal interest, political interest, interferences here and there.
“The NDDC was strategic, it was a child of necessity, I believe that the NDDC has not performed well, I don’t want to say that you have failed the region, I am saying that you have not performed well.
“The real youths of the Niger Delta who undertook clearance of water hyacinths have not been paid, those that were paid are political youths, people that you owe just N500,000 to N1 million are over 400 and they have been going to NDDC for over 10 years, and the money has not been given to them.
“I know as for now in terms of debt, NDDC is owing over N2 trillion, some of them are real, some are imagined, but the problem we are having is that you won’t know the ones that are real when they are mixed with the ones that are political, and the result is that someone who took a loan to do a real job for NDDC probably may have died, leaving the family in penury."
Senator Akpabio said there would be a forensic audit of the funds received and spent by the commission since 2000.
He said: “We will do forensic analysis and audit, we will try to go backwards even from the year 2000 up till now to know what came in and what went out and why we have not seen much on ground."
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that Senator Godswill Akpabio said ever since his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC), some clergymen in Akwa Ibom state had been casting aspersions on him.
In an article, the former Akwa Ibom governor said his defection had cast a spell of fear over the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which had resorted to paying clergymen to tell lies against him.
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