National Assembly panel meets with NDDC over 2021 budget

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Prior to the last NDDC budget approval in 2020, the lawmakers had vowed not to pass any budget for the commission until a new board is constituted.

The agency had appeared before the panel to defend its proposed budget for the year 2021.

Although details of the proposed budget were not made public, a source in the agency – who did not want to be named for fear of victimisation – confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that the meeting was held last week.

Although the Senate had confirmed 15 nominees for the NDDC board in October 2019, the president refused to inaugurate the board. After that, the Minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio, named an Interim Management Committee with Joy Nunieh as the Acting Managing Director. This set-up was changed months later when the president appointed Kemebradikumo Pondei as acting Managing Director.In July 2020, the National Assembly set up a panel to investigate the financial recklessness of the IMC – an investigation that

 

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