The Executive Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has promised to expose the corruption in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
The governor made this promise when he spoke while flagging off construction work at the Elele internal roads in the Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state and he said the commission has become a cash cow for politicians in the Niger Delta.
According to him, the people of Niger Delta do not feel the impact of the huge funds disbursed for the development of the region.
The governor also accused the NDDC of foisting needless projects on the people and urged the new Chairman, Lauretta Onochie to judiciously utilize the commission’s new budget for the benefit of the people of the Niger Delta.
The NDDC has encountered heavy scrutiny in the last three years over the allegation of funds misappropriation by different managements of the commission.
As a matter of fact, a lot of Nigerians still await the outcome of the forensic audit into the commission’s activities three years after President Muhammadu Buhari approved it.
He said: “The president has just inaugurated the new Board of the NDDC and approved a N500 billion budget for the commission. The election is coming on February 25. What the politicians have done is put pressure on the National Assembly so that they pass the N500 billion budget for NDDC.
“I will use this budget to test you whether you will sit with your management to allow this N500 billion to be siphoned to private pockets. I will use this one to test the Chairman of NDDC, our sister, Onochie.
“Our eyes are open, this N500billion, our eyes are open. I’ve told the Attorney General to get prepared to go to court and challenge them. This one, I will expose them.”
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