Members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives have accused the leadership of the Niger Delta Development Commission of engaging in illegal spending of funds belonging to the commission.The NDDC was also involved in the spending of N5bn for the procurement of Personal Protective Equipment for health workers and provision of community-based sensitisation campaign against the spread of COVID-19 to a company named Signora Concept Services Limited.
Kalu stated that while the House had been pushing the commission “to do the needful and render account to the Nigerian people”, it was not against the audit of NDDC’s expenditure. "It took the intervention of the House, following a motion moved by Rep. Benjamin O. Kalu on November 26, 2019, to compel the commission to present its 2019 budget.
"The commission was only able to return with their budget performance report on February 5th, 2020 following which the House passed the 2019 budget three weeks after
Tomorrow you'll hear that lion has swallow the money
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