NDDC: Group Dares NASS To Probe Nwaoboshi, Tunji-Ojo

By Chuks Ekpeneru

The Niger Delta Forum for Equity and Justice has dared the National Assembly to probe allegations of indiscretion raised against Senator Peter Nwaoboshi and Rep. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.

The two have been accused of balkanizing the budget of the commission among other misdeeds.

Noting that the National Assembly through its recent actions was frustrating the commission, the group in a session with newsmen said the legislators wanted to cripple the ongoing forensic audit of the commission.

The group accused the National Assembly of distracting the commission through multiple investigations which they said would scuttle the moves by President Buhari to sanitise the agency.

National Coordinator of Niger Delta Forum for Equity and Justice, Barrister Kenneth Adagogo who spoke on behalf of the Leaders said:

 “If the National Assembly means well, they should probe the recent allegations that their Committee Chairmen in the persons of Senator Peter Nwaoboshi and Honourable Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo balkanized the budgets of the Commission for their personal benefits.

“They should also probe their members who collect commissions for statutory payments to the Commission.”

“We are greatly dismayed by the current moves by the National Assembly to frustrate the ongoing forensic audit of the NDDC.

“How can the National Assembly describe the forensic audit instituted by the President at the behest of all the Governors of the Niger Delta States as illegal?

“How can an exercise which was duly debated and approved by the Federal Executive Council with money appropriated for the exercise by the same National Assembly be described as illegal?

“We are left with no option than to believe the allegations making the rounds that the present move by the National Assembly is at the behest of some of their powerful members who have had their hands soiled in the looting of the Commission over the years and would do everything within their powers to frustrate the effort of President Buhari to cleanse the interventionist agency.

 “The people of the Niger Delta region require the development of their oil-rich region. Sadly, some members of the National Assembly who are from the region have through contract racketeering used the Commission to move their bank accounts forward instead of moving the region forward.

 “This is the mess that the present Interim Management Committee of NDDC led by Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei as mandated by President Buhari is trying to clean.

“We are appalled that rather than support this noble effort some corrupt members of the National Assembly have constituted themselves as clogs in the wheel of progress of the region.”

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