President Muhammadu Buhari has been approached to sack the Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei-led Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by the Nigerian senate.
The legislators pivoted their require the sack of NDDC’s IMC on financial recklessness and furthermore suggested that the organization ought to be come back to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) for appropriate oversight.
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The senate which adopted the recommendations of its “Ad hoc Committee on the investigation of the alleged financial recklessness in the NDDC”, also ordered the current IMC to refund the N4.923billion it paid to staff and contractors in breach of the procurement process and approvals.
Director of the Ad hoc Committee, Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi (Ekiti North) who reported it said;
“In conclusion, the Committee noted that it is difficult to find a correlation between Niger Delta community development and cash invested in the zone.
“Continued cash injection in the Niger Delta challenge issue has not worked under the various IMCs.
“It may be useful at this juncture for the Government to intervene by stepping down the EIMC (Executive Interim Management Committee), thereby helping them leave the stage for a properly constituted board with specific mandate to address the pains of the Niger Delta people.”
