Breaking!!! Orji Uzor Kalu Replies Akpabio, Says NDDC Yet to Pay Contractors for Projects he Facilitated

– Sen Orji Uzor Kalu disclosed on Monday that NNDC is yet to pay the contractors who constructed the roads he facilitated.

– The Senate Chief Whip started this in reaction to the letter Senator Akpabio submitted to House of Reps which indicted him.

The Chief Whip of the Senate and former governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, on Monday said the Niger Delta Development Commission has not paid the contractors who constructed the roads he facilitated.

Kalu was reacting to the report from a document, which the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, attached to the letter he submitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on July 23.

Akpabio, in the document, which was published in The Punch on Monday, August 3, had linked ex-governors Emmanuel Uduaghan, James Ibori, Senator Ifeanyi Ararume, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and others to the several contracts allotted by the NDDC.

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However, Kalu in a statement signed by Barrister Emeka Nwala of office of the Senate Chief Whip and made available to our correspondent on Monday, said he believed that the issues at stake in the NDDC had to do with missing funds and not works done.

He added that he was becoming worried over his name being used indiscriminately to sell newspapers without verifications.

The Chief Whip said the road projects mentioned by the Honourable Minister are the interventions he facilitated for the communities as a private citizen before he became a Senator.

Kalu revealed that his name was mentioned because he used his letter headed paper to write a sympathetic letter to the NDDC in 2016 requesting and pleading with the body to rescue roads in Abia.

He also noted that his relationship with Akpabio dated years back and long before he (Kalu) became a governor.

He added that he would still request for more road interventions from Akpabio

He said, “I was governor of Abia State between 1999-2007 and never held any public office until June 11, 2019, when I was sworn in as a Senator.