ICPC quizzes NDDC officials over alleged corruption

Just for illustration: ICPC officials escort suspect out of the complex

By Philomina Attah

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) said it recently quizzed top officials of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) over various allegations of corruption.

Mrs Azuka Ogugua, Spokesperson of the Commission, said this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja.

Ogugua said the allegations included the diversion of funds, procurement fraud and misappropriation of the agency’s COVID-19 funds.

According to her, this came after months of intelligence gathering, following the receipt of petitions from Nigerians on the alleged illegalities and contracts fraud by some officials of the agency.

“Top officials of the agency are being investigated for their complicity in an alleged diversion of N5.474 billion meant for the purchase of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for health workers handling the COVID-19 pandemic in the nine states of NDDC.

“The commission is also investigating the payments of millions of Naira to the staff of the agency for foreign training during the COVID-19 full lockdown which were never attended.

“As well as the non-payment of entitlements to students on foreign scholarships.

“Other allegations being investigated by ICPC include the selling of backdated contract award letters for projects and awards of contracts that were not captured in the budget of the NDDC,’’ she said.

She added that ICPC had already retrieved relevant documents with which to continue investigations towards the recovery of diverted funds and prosecution of breaches of the law.

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Matthew says:

August 29, 2020 at 4:51 pm

With all due respect to the readers, P M News and President Trump,

Is this all we all are gping to hear about Nigeria as daily looting and then the monumental covet ups on a daily basis?. Today’s Nigeria is a criminal enterprise with almost 195 million alleged criminals which consisted of both by literates and illiterates those including President Buhari , Osinabjo, Zainab Ahmed, Emifile, Lawan, Gbaja, Magu, Malami, Akpabio and many others and all their predecessors those including Jonathan, Dame Patience, Sambo, TY Danjuma, David Mark, Tambuwal, Lamido Sansi, Iweala, Akin Adesina and Donald kabiruka with AFDB, Adua, Atiku, OBJ, Ken Nnamani, Masari, Pius Anyium, Abdulsalami, Abacha, IBB and many. Many others directly involved with us by collecting daily extortion by repeat, mutiple, taxes, fees and paying for CBN’s daily Niara value manipulations which was going on now over the two decades and still going on by the serving idiotic morons named Muhammed Buhari, Osinbajo, Zainab Ahmed and Emifilie.

The very last extortion was collected by these illiterates was on 20th of August 2020 and we are still waiting for our payment.

At this time it will be very unappropriate if we are not commending on President Trump, the Candidate Trump, his advisers and csbals those are cleanly failed on me, us and America and seems engaged in talks, talks and more empty talks in many many ways.Time has come for you Mr. Trump to understand, resolve and execute our daily and weekly communications to you instead of throwing blames which created by your own incomptency, inexperience and now further wasting away our lives while witnessing our daily genocide. Our cries and prayers has transformed back Africa especially Nigeria to the stone age today with abject poverty, no investors, no jobs, no development and no hope.

Is it fair to ask you again Mr. Trumo to lead us, folllow us or just get out from our lives?. Enough is enough of your lame duck Presidency and our daily sufferings,

Lal Ibru Matthew,
Kruxland Petroleum
Texas.