On July 20, Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei, acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), demonstrated with marginal success the art of fainting in degrees during a legislative probe into the mismanagement of funds at the agency.
Pondei took in the scene, the heat, occasioned by a malfunctioning air conditioning, and the mind-boggling missing figures he is being asked to account for, rolled his eyes and proceeded to faint in instalments.
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