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NDDC Saga: Akpabio Tackles National Assembly

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio has dared the National Assembly over ‘selective’ probe of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

Brandnewsday reports that Akpabio made this known while speaking with members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) when they visited him in Abuja.

The legislature is investigating the financial activities of the agency.

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On Thursday, the former Akwa Ibom Governor told lawmakers that the probe should cover all the years of NDDC’s existence.

Akpabio Nigerians Ask questions

Akpabio urged Nigerians to “ask questions”.

“How come it is only now that even our parliament has found it necessary to conduct a selective probe of NDDC? Instead of beginning from the inception, the year 2001, they are now doing five months probe out of almost 20 years of existence. Why?

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“NDDC has been in existence since 1999; what is really happening now? How is it all petitions on earth are happening? When the wind blows, it blows along with the answer,” he said.

He recalled that after President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the forensic audit of NDDC, he pointed out that as soon as this forensic audit commences, “hell would be let loose”.

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The minister said the campaign against him and the Interim Management Committee “is so well-funded that you hardly open a newspaper and you don’t see a screaming headline”.

Speaking further, Akpabio said that what everyone is talking about is corruption in five months, “not corruption in 19 years and seven months”.

READ: Watch Video Of How NDDC DG, Pondei Slumped During Reps Interrogation

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