Only N8bn was spent under my leadership, says ex-NDDC Acting MD

The immediate past acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission , Dr. Gbene Joi Nunieh, has denied allegations that the agency spent N22.6billion under her stewardship. Dr. Nunieh spoke to Senate Correspondents on Friday after the final session of the Senate Ad hoc Committee investigating alleged financial recklessness and misappropriation of N40billion by the Interim Management Committee of the NDDC, between October 2019 and May this year.

She said that only N8billion was expended by the agency from October 29, 2019 to May 31, 2020, when she was in charge of affairs at the NDDC, contrary to the figure being bandied around. The Chairman of the Senate Adhoc Committee, Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi, had on Thursday said based on record supplied to the panel by the IMC, the agency had so far spent N81.5billion. He added that of the amount, the IMC led by Dr. Nunieh between October 2019 and February 18, 2020, spent a total of N22.

The ex-Acting MD of the NDDC further alleged that the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs frustrated her efforts during her tenure before she was finally removed from office. She alleged that Akpabio told her on the day that her committee was inaugurated that she must always do his bidding. “Madam MD, if you don’t do what l say, the same one that l used in signing your letter, is the same one l will use to remove you, ” she quoted Akpabio as saying.

She said her antagonists finally succeeded in getting her out of NDDC for the sole purpose of having their way, which, according to her,” is to run the place the way they like under the present team of IMC.” However, a member of the current IMC of the NDDC, Evangelist Caroline Nagbo, said that Nunieh was being economical with the truth. Nagbo insisted that there was no time Nunieh or any other member of the IMC was invited to take any oath of secrecy.

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