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‘N5.4bn fraud’: ICPC Grills NDDC Directors
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says its interrogated top management staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Spokesman of ICPC, Azuka Ogugua, announced the development in a statement on Saturday.
Ogugua said some directors of the commission were interrogated at the commission’s headquarters over allegations of procurement fraud and misappropriation of COVID-19 funds.
Oguagua said the interrogation is sequel to months of intelligence gathering and receipt of petitions from Nigerians on the alleged illegalities and contracts fraud by some officials of NDDC.
He said they are being investigated for their complicity in the alleged diversion of N5.474 billion meant for the purchase of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers handling the COVID-19 pandemic in the nine states.
Oguagua said ICPC is also investigating the payments of millions of naira to NDDC for foreign training during the COVID-19 lockdown “which were never attended”, as well as the non-payment of entitlements to students on foreign scholarships.
Other allegations being investigated by ICPC 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”.
“ICPC had already retrieved relevant documents with which to continue investigations towards the recovery of diverted funds and prosecution of breaches of the law,” the statement read.
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