It could be recalled that the Committee had penultimate week, issued ultimatum to the NDDC boss, to appear before it on Monday, February 22, 2021 unfailingly, having failed to honour three earlier invitations made to that effect.
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Speaking to State House correspondents at the end of the closed doors meeting, the senate president described the deliberation as fruitful, saying Nigerians troubled areas would in the two months have their environment secured to enable them engage in agricultural activities and other businesses.
This was as the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition invited the immediate past Managing Director of the dissolved Interim Management Committee of the NDDC, Prof. Daniel Pondei. and his board members to appear before it to provide explanations.
This was even as the Minister of State, Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, tackled his kinsmen from oil host communities over percentage accruals from the various oil firms.
Malami spoke in a statement by Dr. Umar Gwandu, his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, in Abuja on Friday
Akpabio is reportedly said to have made the comment on Wednesday in Abuja while receiving the interim report of the commission from the forensic auditors.
This was just as the upper chamber approved a recommendation by the Senate and House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta for an extension of the budget implementation timeline to March 31, 2021.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, announced this in a statement on Saturday
“With gratitude to God for a most remarkable and worthy life, The Ndoma-Egba and Onono families of Cross River and Anambra States respectively, announce the transition to eternal glory of our wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunty and friend. Mrs. Amaka Lauretta Ndoma-Egba (Nee Onono) died on 19th November, 2020 at the age of 54,” the statement issued on behalf of the family by Prof. Rowland Ndoma-Egba reads.
The NDDC Acting Managing Director, Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei, while handing over the additional tools, including 10 Hilux vehicles and five buses, to the auditors at the new permanent headquarters of the Commission in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, stressed that the forensic audit was not meant to witch-hunt any individual or group.
Among others, the FOI request included the publication of the budgetary appropriations made by the National Assembly to the Niger Delta Development Commission from 2010 to 2020 and the names and designation of members of the National Assembly who have been awarded contracts by the NDDC or who have otherwise benefitted in any manner howsoever from the budgetary funds of the Commission from 2010 to 2020.
Rep Wale Oke, Chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, announced the absence of the NDDC boss at the scheduled hearing on Wednesday in Abuja.
The commission said this in a statement by Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei, its Acting Managing Director, on Friday in Abuja
The people also lauded the security operatives deployed in the area for demonstrating maturity and professionalism during the exercise.
The meeting, which held in the office of Olubumi Tunji-Ojo, the Committee Chairman, at the National Assembly Complex, began at about 3:30pm and ended at about 7pm.
Ojougboh in an interview with a national daily had accused the National Assembly of being “culpable” in the sleaze contracts awarded by the commission.
This was revealed in a statement by the IMC of the intervention agency on Monday.
The Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Wole Oke (PDP-Osun), confirmed the receipt of the reports on Tuesday.
Uduaghan made the denial in a statement on Monday following the inclusion of his name as contract beneficiary in a letter the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, sent to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila.
The elder statesman, church leader, who also holds the traditional title of Owatapa of Itapa-Ijesa, expressed these views while featuring on Space FM Ibadan’s programme: Parrot Xtra Hour On Radio, anchored by Olayinka Agboola on Tuesday