Nigeria: Time to End Corruption At the NDDC

14 July 2020

Nseobong Okon-Ekong writes that the ongoing public hearing of the Senate Adhoc Committee investigating corruption allegations at the Niger Delta Development Commission has uncovered a lot of disheartening infractions which support the insistent calls to disband the Interim Management Committee and a probe of the role of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio

The corruption, financial recklessness and voodoo fetish oaths at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) under the Interim Management Committee as unveiled at the recent public hearing of the Senate Adhoc Committee investigating corruption allegations should not be condoned any further. It is disheartening that these infractions, which came complete with evidentiary material, have the imprimatur of the Niger Delta Minister Chief Godswill Akpabio who, it seems, has engineered the whole fraud for his own selfish aggrandizement.

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