The NDDC has released the list of 23 companies allegedly used by the National Assembly to obtain N9 trillion contracts from the Commission.
The Commission alleges that the National Assembly members coerced them to release the N9 trillion for various spurious contracts before its 2019 budget could be passed.
The list gives details comprising the names of the projects, contractors’ names, contract sums and dates of payment for each.
The Minister of the Niger Delta had claimed that the National Assembly members were the biggest beneficiaries of NDDC contracts. The assertion was corroborated by the Special Adviser on Media to the Commission’s Chairman, Edgar Ebigoni.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila ordered the Minister to publish the names of the lawmakers who got such contracts or face prosecution. On its part, the Commission vowed to release the details of the contracts including the 250 collected through some proxies in just one day.
Ebigoni said in a statement that the the N9 trillion contracts were awarded and paid for between the 17th and 26th of March.
Going by the list of projects in the document, most of the the contracts were for the rehabilitation of roads and reconstruction of failed road projects in the NDDC communities.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the House Committee on NDDC, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has refuted the allegations by the NDDC insisting the Commission has not been transparent in its dealings.
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