Dr Ojougboh has revealed that CORRUPT Politicians, Contractors, Staffs of the Commission amongst others at large are those afraid of the ongoing NDDC FORENSIC AUDIT for the fears of being exposed of their iniquity committed against the Commission by looting it tried... Dr Ojougboh who spoke on Rise-Tv recently express satisfaction on the progress made so far in course of the auditing, said a lot have been unveils, he noted that Nigerian will be greatly astonished when the AUDIT REPPORT will be ready soon to exposed all CORRUPTION being perpetrated for over 19yrs by past successive board's and their cohorts he said.
#In_the_issues_of_NASS_Probe_over_40billion_allegations
Dr Ojougboh said there was no reckless spending of 40billion, that the Commission is ever ready to be investigated pointed out that such investigation should be on live broadcast by National Tv and Nigerians, and the Leadership of the National Assembly will see how their House Committee Chairman on NDDC and their cohorts are doing harm to the NDDC budget on behalf of the National Assembly... Going further, he said the Interim Management Committee since they came on board have not awarded any ROAD Contract, that the only Contract the Commission awarded recently was the contract to Support Fight against Covid_19 pandemic that have been ravaging the world, and PALLIATIVE SUPPORT to cushions the effect of the pandemic which has brought untold hardship to the Good Poeple of Niger Delta Region, especially to the most vulnerable Men and Women and others at large in the Society. It should be abundantly noted here that the said contract to support the covid_19 pandemic was requested by the Interim Management Committee to Assist the region and same was also approved by the Federal Executive Council, and the items approved were just supplied, only for the Commission to start distribution of the items accordingly which is still ongoing some Group of Poeple who wanted it Business as usual now took to the Media with hired Avatars bloggers to discredit the Interim Management Committee put in place to oversee the Commission. This is greatest injustice to humanity, but the truth is always there to unveils it self anytime the need arises as the record's are going to set preecedence for other incoming board's he said.
He further revealed that one of the major problem why they are after the Interim Management Committee, it's not Business as usual as many of the illegality to siphoned money have been put to stop. He observed that some of this company standing as consulting firm are own directly or indirectly by some top politicians who are in elective position amongst others...
#HOW_PAST_SUCCESSIVE_BOARDS_AND_THEIR_COHORTS_LOOTED_NDDC_TRIED
#Ojougboh__Outline_Facts
The illegality happening in the NDDC is quite unfortunate. I will like to begin from when we came in as the Interim Management Committee. When we got to the NDDC, we met a letter from the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio stopping a consultancy arrangement given to two firms. One is star Line Nigeria Limited. Star Line was illegally collecting revenue on behalf of the NDDC for statutory payments and they were earning N1 billion every month. When the minister came in , the company invited the Minister to join the fraud. The Minister said "No", and immediately asked for the stoppage of that consultancy. Another company called Candour went to LNG and claimed they were the ones who initiated statutory payments from LNG. And the company belongs to a serving Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The letter says they collected $28 million and then exchanged it for N360 to a dollar . As at that time the exchange rate was not N360 to $1. The CBN was exchanging for N225 to $1. And at the end of the day ,they asked for 20 percent of the $28million. They were paid . They wanted to continue. Senator Akpabio said "No", this is fraud against Nigeria and hell was let loose. They claimed that this is the money used to work in the National Assembly in Abuja. According to the chairman, if there is any contest in the National Assembly this is where they source the money from. The IMC wrote letters to these contracts and because of that they declared war on the IMC. Let me make this clear. The Hon. Speaker and the President of the Senate are not aware of what the Chairmen of the Committees are doing in the National Assembly. And even members of the committees are not also aware . It is just One man squad.
#Going_Further_Ojougboh_Said:
Between 2016 and 2019 emergency contracts of over N2 trillion were awarded under the supervision of the Chairmen of both committees. And I have the list of how the contracts were distributed. In the list, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta collected 1000 of those jobs and said he was going to share it among the senators, but the senators denied knowledge of such files. We have the records . These 1000 contracts were collected by a man called Nelson Agbamuche purportedly on behalf of the Senate. The immediate crises that we are witnessing is as a result of the budget. How did the budget run into problem?. The bureaucracy told us when we came in that in 2016 there was no budget, 2017 there was no budget . 2018 there was no budget. The budget for 2019 was passed some few weeks ago . What led to it? When a Chairman of Senate Committee came in in 2015, he called the bureaucracy of NDDC and told them to insert jobs worth N15 billion for him, they went back and complied. But when the budget was sent to him he said he did not mean N15 billion but N150 billion. The bureaucracy went back but couldn't comply because there was no way they could do that. The Chairman advised them to award the contract as emergency jobs so that they won't go through the due processes. That was how the emergency procedures were breached and the commission presently has liabilities of over N3 trillion. How can this continue?
And that is what the IMC and the Hon. Minister said we have to write in. It didn't just stop there. The Chairman of the House Committee on Niger Delta came to us and brought out emergency training programme for N6.4 billion and said that he has met the first milestone and that the commission should pay him N3.7 billion . We said this milestone you are talking about cannot be paid because you have not done it . He said the job belonged to the speaker and we said we cannot pay. We went and met the Speaker and the Speaker said he was not aware of such a thing. This was not in the budget at all. When they passed the 2019 budget, the Chairman, House committee included it and insisted we must pay the money and we said we cannot pay. #INTERIM_MANAGEMENT_COMMITTEE_IS_NOT_KNOWN_FOR_CORRUPTION; They said the IMC has stolen N40 billion, how can that be possible? All the payments we have made on projects were duly verified. I took my time as the Executive Director Projects, to go from State to State to verify the projects and document them. Whenever we are satisfied that you have done jobs that merit payments we will pay you. And we were not paying as they used to pay so the contractors are very angry. Before now, once you have a contract in NDDC, it was like you have won a lottery. A contract in NDDC that was awarded for N700 million will only cost you 20million to complete such project.....
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