NDDC Names 23 Companies Used By NASS To Get N9 Trillion Contracts (Full List)

• NDDC Names 23 Companies Used By NASS To Get N9 Trillion Contracts (Full List)

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has listed out the names of 23 Companies used by the National Assembly (NASS) to receive N9 Trillion contracts, Ekohotblog reports.

NDDC in a new statement revealed that the companies were provided by the National Assembly to the NDDC to award contracts before the lawmakers.

According to the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), the contracts were awarded to these companies within the period of March 17 and 26, 2020 and noted that the highest award was given to one Grandfox Global Services Ltd.

Grandfox Global Services Ltd was awarded the contract titled ‘Emergency at Ope Road Okigwe LGA’ and was paid N580,438,578, on March 17, 2020, SaharaReporters revealed.

The commission also listed Crism Constr. Building Ltd; Aritel Oil and Gas; and PDH Global Logistics Ltd, as beneficiaries of N561,592,377; N550,100,132; and N543,247,587 contracts respectively while Webster Global Ventures Ltd, had four contracts from the commission.

The NDDC emphasized the purpose for which some of the contracts were awarded.

According to the Document, the contracts were made for the emergency repairs of failed and unmotorable sections of Benin Township Road Lot 2 Oredo LGA for N357m; remedial works of failed and unmotorable parts of Akuku Illah Road Oshimili North LGA for N463m; corrective actions of failed and unmotorable sections of New Ogorode Road Lot2 Sapele LGA for N466m and instruction for emergency repairs of failed and unmotorable sections of Abigborodo Road Lots 2 Warri North LGA for N466m.

Although, Webster Global Ventures Limited has refuted claims leveled against it by the Interim Management Committee of the NDDC, and explainef that the National Assembly did not influence any payment made to the company.

Webster Global Venture Limited said the statement by the Acting Managing Director of the NDDC; Prof Kemebradikumo Daniel Pondei, was false and misleading, targeted to run the reputation of the company down.

The Director of Operations of the company, Opeolu Adarae in a statement on Saturday said “We are a company of international repute and no one should dent our image.

“The National Assembly never influenced payment made to our company because we completed all projects we handled. We have been in operations for more than 20 years and we have never been linked to any form of fraud as a corporate company.

“Nobody gave us any recommendation and we do not have any business with the National Assembly. As a matter of fact, the Executive Director, Project for the NDDC, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, inspected our project and certified it satisfactorily completed before payment was made.”

Similarly, the Chairman of the House Committee on NDDC, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, reacting to the new documents refuted claims by the commission, and stated that the commission had been engaging in extra-budgetary expenses.

Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said“All these things are just falsehood. The commission said they are old jobs and said the National Assembly asked them to pay for the old jobs.

“We did not get the job and we are only doing our jobs.

“As the legislature, we are supposed to be the one checking the excesses of the executive but they are trying to blackmail us.

“With what they are trying to do now, they are trying to blackmail us so they will have a free hand to do what they want to do.