NDDC Names Lawmakers Who Collected Contracts For National Assembly Members

*Manager, Mutu, Nwaoboshi and Ojo Fingered

*Ojougboh says the commission has the list of names of lawmakers who collected contract for members of the national assembly

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) names Lawmakers who collected contract for National Assembly

The commission also says it has the list of contracts awarded to members of both chambers of the National Assembly.

The Executive Director of Projects of the Interim Management Committee of the commission, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, disclosed this at the palace of the Asagba of Asaba, Prof. Chike Edozien, on Friday during a courtesy call.

Ojougboh reaffirmed the position of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, saying he was very right, he did not recant.

The Director also accused some top lawmakers in the region, including Senator James Manager and Senator Peter Nwaoboshi.

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The Executive Director of Projects said that members of NASS in the past 20 years saw the NDDC as a farm and not an interventionist agency.

He added that NASS members perpetrated the fraud that ruined the commission through the Office of the Secretary to Federal Government (SGF), emphasizing that the aim of NASS members was to return the commission from the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs (MNDA) to SGF office to continue the sleaze.

Ojougboh indicted the senator representing Delta North, Peter Nwaoboshi, alleging that his factory in Asaba was the warehouse where other lawmakers receive NDDC contracts.

“Look at our son, Nwaoboshi, his factory is the warehouse of NDDC, they will award the contract, they will now say they received the contract in his factory.

“We have the list of the contracts given to NASS members; all of them were collected through Mutu, Nwaoboshi, Manager, and Ojo.

“What the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs said was very right, he did not recant, that is what people don’t understand.

“He said since we came, we have not awarded any contract. Therefore the Ninth Assembly is not involved. The involvement of the Ninth Assembly is through Ojo.

“In the probe, NASS members are the contractors, they are the judge, they are the prosecutors, and they are the jailers.

“That is the country we find ourselves. If this country must move to improve, we must look at NASS, and I will tell them where to go at NASS,” Ojougboh told the monarch.

He said the money that was paid into his account is for a trip coming up later in September, explaining that the trip was postponed to September as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The trip was postponed because of the COVID-19 event. So the University of Coventry wrote to say that they will wait until the government relaxes the travel ban before the ceremonies and graduation of students will take place,” he added.