Tag: NDDC Management

NDDC Crisis: Onochie accuses MD of operating 367 illegal accounts

Aminu Imam

Another round of fresh corruption crisis has bedevilled the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as the Chairman of the Commission’s Board of Directors, Lauretta Onochie and the Managing Director, Samuel Ogbuku, openly engaged one another in corruption allegations exchanges at the National Assembly. At an investigative hearing by the Senate Committee on Unauthorised Spending in the Commission, Ogbuku, who was represented by the Executive Director in charge of Finance and Administration, Charles Airhiavere, accused Onochie of over stepping her bounds by desperately seeking to be a signatory to NDDC’s accounts.…

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Investigative hearing: NDDC management walks out on Reps, accuses Committee Chairman of corruption

Ishaku Yohanna

The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Daniel Pondei, has led a walk out on the House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta. Pondei, who appeared with other management staff of the commission, accused the Chairman of the House Committee on NDDC, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, of corruption. He said because of that, his team will not speak before the committee. “We are not comfortable with the chairman of this committee presiding over a matter he has been accused of,” he said. He asked the committee chairman to…

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