The Independent Corrupt practices and Other Related Offences Commission ( ICPC) has frozen the accounts belonging to top officials of the Niger Delta Development Commission ( NDDC).
The Commission said after months of intelligence gathering and receipt of petitions from well meaning Nigerians, some NDDC Directors were interogated at its Headquarters in Abuja.
Spokesperson of the Commission, Azuka Ogugua said the Commission is also investigating multi-million naira payment to staff of the staff of the NDDC for foreign training during the Covid-19 lockdown which they never attended,as well as the non payment of entitlements to students on foreign scholarships ( which according to reports have now been paid.).
In a statement titled “ICPC” quizzes NDDC directors, other officials , on Saturday, Ogugua said that “the officials of the Agency were also being investigated for their complicity in the alleged diversion of N5.474bn meant for the purchase of Personal Protective Equipment for health workers handling the Covid-19 pandemic in the nine states of NDDC..”
The NDDC is also being investigated for selling of back- dated contract award letters for projects and awards of contracts that were not captured in the budget of the NDDC..
The ICPC stated that “it had already retrieved relevant documents with which to continue Investigations towards the recovery of diverted fund’s and prosecution of breaches of the law.”
