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Breaking!!! NDDC Saga: Akpabio Replies the House, Denies Accusing Members of Getting 60 Percent NDDC Contracts
– The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswil Akpabio has denied accusing National Assembly members of receiving 60 Percent NDDC contracts
– The Minister refutes this in a letter written to House of Reps on Wednesday which was read during the plenary by the Speaker.
The Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has denied accusing members of the National Assembly of collecting 60 percent of the contracts at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Akpabio, in a letter read on the floor of the House during Plenary by the Speaker on Thursday said the only reference he made to 60 percent during his presentation before the NDDC committee on Monday was in response to a question by a member of the committee.
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He said the member had sought to know whether a Medical Director can serve as an Executive Director Project, to which he responded by saying that since 50 to 60 percent of NDDC contracts were medical related, there was nothing wrong in a Medical Director serving in that capacity.
He also said that the Executive Director Project of the NDDC forwarded to him a list of 19 owed contracts which the Chairman of the House Committee on NDDC insisted must be paid before the 2020 budget of the commission is passed.
The letter is coming in line with the directive which was issued to the Minister by the Speaker of House Representatives, RT Hon Femi Gbajabiamila to make public the names of National Assembly members that are awarded contracts by NDDC.
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