The controversy generated by last week’s sealing of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, headquarters in Port Harcourt by Rivers State government over N50billion tax allegedly outstanding against the NDDC has escalated with the All Progressives Congress, APC, asking the Federal Government to relocate the agency to Edo State.
Chief Thankgod Adoage Norteh, Executive Chairman, RIRS, recalled, “At that time, they had admitted owing over N600million. That amount was collected over a period, from 2014 till that point we sealed last year.” “However, on paying that money, we decided to let them sit and reconcile. And that we will go and look at their records. We have since been asking to look at their records. They have refused repeatedly.“We had no option than to put up a Best of Judgement, BOJ, assessment which is what they are agitated about now. We reasoned that these people are not allowing us access to their records, so let us give them a BOJ.
“So if you look at it from all sides, they certainly owe. They could have said they were not indebted to the tune of N50billion. But if so, they would have opened their records for us to see. They were not responding to that and not giving the RIRS access to their books. “We now had to go their head office, to seal it up because, at the moment, as it were, it means NDDC belongs to Rivers State government.
“Wike should know that an attack on NDDC’s operations is an attack on the South-South and other oil producing states the commission was established to develop. I call on stakeholders in the Niger Delta to call the governor to order since he has decided to take his executive rascality to new heights.
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