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N5.4b Fraud: ICPC Interrogates NDDC Directors, Recovers Documents
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, has interrogated top management staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission and has recovered documents on the extortion of funds, fraud and misappropriation of N5.4 billion COVID-19 fund by the officials.
The ICPC said some NDDC directors were interrogated at its headquarters in Abuja after months of intelligence gathering, following the receipt of petitions from Nigerians on the alleged illegalities and contract fraud by some officials of the agency.
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The ICPC spokesman, Mr Azuka Ogugua, said the commission is also investigating the payment of millions of naira to staff of the NDDC for foreign training during the COVID-19 lockdown which they never attended, as well as the non-payment of entitlements to students on foreign scholarships.
Mr Ogugua in a statement on Saturday entitled, ‘ICPC quizzes NDDC directors, other officials,’ said, “The officials of the agency were also being investigated for their complicity in the alleged diversion of N5.474bn meant for the purchase of Personal Protective Equipment for health workers handling the COVID-19 pandemic in the nine states of NDDC.
“Other allegations being investigated by the anti-graft agency include the selling of back-dated contract award letters for projects and awards of contracts that were not captured in the budget of the NDDC.”
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