The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has quizzed top management staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), over allegations of various acts of corruption, Spokesperson Mrs. Azuka C. Ogugua, has said.
Ogugua, in a statement made available to the media on Saturday, said that the commission is looking at infractions such as diversion of funds, procurement fraud and misappropriation of the agency’s Covid-19 funds.
She said that some directors of NDDC were interrogated at the Commission’s headquarters recently, after months of intelligence gathering, following the receipt of petitions from Nigerians on the alleged illegalities and contracts fraud by some officials of the agency.
According to the statement, the NNDC officials are being investigated also for their complicity in an alleged diversion of N5.474 billion meant for the purchase of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for health workers handling the Covid-19 pandemic in the nine states of NDDC and
for payments of millions of Naira to the staff of the agency for foreign training during the Covid-19 full lockdown which were never attended, as well as the non-payment of entitlements to students on foreign scholarships.
The NNDC officials, past and present, have been subject of allegations of massive frauds which have put the commission in negative limelight.
