High-Level Pressure To Suppress NDDC Audit Report Mounts

A lobby to suppress the publication of the report of the forensic audit into the affairs of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC has commenced following the indictment of some prominent persons.

The report which is yet to be made public according to very reliable sources has indicted some senior serving and former operatives in the Federal Government.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the audit report was submitted by Senator Godswill Akpabio to President Muhammadu Buhari through the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami last Thursday.

The forensic audit was commissioned by President Buhari as a way of reviewing all that has been done in the Niger Delta since the commission came into being in year 2001.

A very dependable source privy to the content of the report told  GreenWhiteGreen GWG of the pressure to kill the report because of the damming evidence against some serving governors and legislators.

“Yes I can confirm to you that some people don’t want the report out but I know the president is determined to ensure that it is not only published but that those indicted are punished,” the source said at the weekend of the pressure to suppress the NDDC forensic audit report.

Continuing, he said:
“It is understandable why there is pressure to suppress the report because some governors and National Assembly members were clearly indicted and these people don’t want the report out,” the source privy to the report disclosed.

Speaking at the presentation of the forensic report to Malami, the lead forensic auditor, Alhaji Kabir Ahmed said that 13,700 projects were found to have been abandoned across the Niger Delta region.

The auditors also recommended, among others, the downsizing of the NDDC board as a a part time rather than a full time appointment, recovery of $4 billion still with oil companies and review of the NDDC masterplan to make it mandatory for all development projects to be in line with the plan and on needs basis.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the recommendation on the downsizing of the board is one that is being challenged by stakeholders in the region who are seeing it as a ploy by Akpabio to sustain his hold over the commission.

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