Tag: NDDC

₦6tr scandal: SERAP demands publication of indicted names in NDDC report

Aminu Imam
SERAP NDDC

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP), has called on the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, (SAN), to immediately enforce a court judgment directing him and President Bola Tinubu to publish the names of those implicated in the alleged misappropriation of ₦6 trillion allocated to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) between 2000 and 2019. The directive follows a ruling by Hon. Justice Gladys Olotu on 10 November, delivered in the Federal High Court, Abuja, in the course of a Freedom of Information suit (FHC/ABJ/CS/1360/2021)…

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Missing ₦6tr: SERAP sues FG over non-release of NDDC audit report

Aminu Imam
SERAP sues FG

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) and four concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against the government of President Bola Tinubu over its failure to publish the report of the forensic audit carried out on the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC). The development was disclosed yesterday, in a statement by SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare. According to SERAP, this report implicated top officials and politicians in the disappearance of ₦6 trillion from the agency between 2001 and 2019. Recall that former President Muhammadu Buhari had in 2019 ordered the…

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“Publish NDDC audit report, prosecute those behind delay”, SERAP to Tinubu

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SERAP to Tinubu

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP), has urged President Bola Tinubu to direct the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi to investigate those allegedly responsible for obstructing the publication of the forensic audit report on the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC). According to SERAP, this report, which covered the period between 2000 and 2019, was commissioned under former President Muhammadu Buhari and submitted to his administration in September 2021. It was said that despite public interest and repeated demands, the audit findings remain unpublished.…

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Igbo elders slam Edwin Clark over demand for removal of Abia, Imo, Ondo from NDDC

Aminu Imam

Igbo elders, under the aegis of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, have condemned the recent call by elder statesman and leader of the Pan-Niger Delta Forum, (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, for the Federal Government to remove Abia, Imo, and Ondo States from the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC). Recall that Clark, yesterday demanded President Tinubu to amend the Act establishing the NDDC and remove non-Niger Delta oil-producing States from the intervention agency. The organisation, which made its reaction known via an issued statement signed by its Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, described Clarks proposal as…

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Niger-Delta: Clark demands the removal of Abia, Imo, and Ondo from NDDC

Aminu Imam

Ijaw leader, Edwin Clark, has urged President Tinubu to remove Abia, Imo and Ondo States from the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC). The elder statesman also urged President Tinubu to re-enact a new Bill for the Oil production States, which are: Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Edo and Akwa-Ibom. According to the chieftain, the States were included in the first place in the 2000 NDDC Act for convenience, though a political aberration. He, therefore, made demand for President Bola Tinubu to re-enact a new bill for the NDDC that would reflect the…

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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 Commissions 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 NDDCs accounts.…

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NDDC Board Nomination: “We shall meet in court”, Itsekiri group tells FG

Aminu Imam

The Itsekiri Consultative Forum (ICF) has stated that they would drag the Federal Government to court over the nomination of the Board members of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. In an issued statement made available to newsmen in Warri, on Wednesday, and signed by the Forum’s Chairman, Prince Emma Okotie-Eboh, and Secretary, Comrade Amaechi Ogbonna, they maintained that constituting the Board in the heat of political parties campaigns for the 2023 general elections would turn the NDDC into a cash-cow for politicians and derail the Commission from carrying out…

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Buhari sacks NDDC Sole Administrator, orders constitution of new Board  

Aminu Imam

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the disengagement of the Interim Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Effiong Okon Akwa. In a memo signed by the Director of Press, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Patricia Deworitshe, Buhari ordered that the directive should take effect from today, 20 October 2022. Akwa was appointed interim administrator of the Commission for the duration of the Forensic Audit into the operations of the NDDC, which has now been concluded. According to Deworitshe, Buhari also approved the constitution of a new Management Team and…

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“NDDC thieves must cough out their loot” – Buhari vows

Aminu Imam

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that every kobo stolen from the Niger-Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), will be recovered. The President, who spoke yesterday, during the virtual commissioning of the NDDC Prototype Hostel at the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, said those found culpable will be jailed. He added that the concluded report of the forensic audit of the activities of the Commission was being reviewed for this purpose. The President, however, expressed regret that the special development fund of the entire region was squandered by a few. He…

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More Lassa Fever deaths recorded in Bauchi, Ebonyi

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NDDC) has announced that Bauchi and Ebonyi states recorded new deaths from Lassa fever as the nations toll from the disease since the beginning of 2021 rises to 92. The NCDC disclosed this in its latest situation report on the outbreak of the disease in the country. According to the data from the report for Week 50, which covered December 13 to 19, three more deaths were reported in the week under review. While Bauchi reported two new fatalities, Ebonyi recorded a new death…

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