Niger Delta Minister dropped a damning bombshell today at the ongoing NDDC probe by Nigeria’s lawmakers.
This is more so as the probe took yet another turn as more mind blowing, more unethical activities were revealed by Akpabio himself. The development was monitored on Channels TV.
He reminded the panel that “the NNDC plays a vital role in ensuring the peace and security of the region.”
Godswill Akpabio added that “90% or more of the resources of the country, on a monthly basis comes from there. If you close it down in totality, all you’ll have will be chaos and you have not just militancy but you’ll have a lot of insurrection.
“So it is important that people who have gone to court, people who genuinely did jobs should be paid for their jobs. So for me, I’m not against it because ehn ehn, come to think of it, who are even the greatest beneficiaries ?
…And then, he hits the panel below the belt ! No one saw it coming when the Minister drops the bombshell and told the lawmakers who the greatest beneficiaries of the NDDC contracts are. According to him, the greatest beneficiaries …
“…it’s you people na. If you look at your chairman…
The panel saw a rather revealing and damning accusation coming and tried to shut the minister down. They attempted endlessly to stop the female member of the panel for making the Minister reveal more as shouts of “okay, okay, it’s ok” rented the air.
Unfortunately the female lawmaker refused to stop her interrogation while the Minister doubled down on his epic expose. The lady panelist felt slighted and wanted to get to the root of Akpabio’s accusations.
The Chairman picked the gavel hitting the table fruitlessly and frantically shouting “Honourable Minister, that’s okay, that’s okay.” The chairman tapped the lady to halt her interrogations but to no avail.
Godswill Akpabio insisted that “we have documents to show that most of the NDDC contracts are giving out to members of the National Assembly.”
Luckily the female panelist was exonerated by the Minster told her that unfortunately, “you don’t know about it but the two chairmen can explain to you.”
The panel chairman insisted that the minister speaks no more ! He instructed him to turn of his mic ! But, no ! Akpabio wouldn’t !
Akpabio revealed that he was a naive member like the female lawmaker who knew nothing about what was going on at the time he was a lawmaker.
More to come… Watch this space.
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