Forensic audit: ex-agitators ask NDDC to publish indicted persons

• Published date: 15 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

Leaders of ex-agitators have called on the new governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to publish the names of persons indicted by the forensic audit report of the commission.

Speaking for other leaders after an emergency meeting of ex-agitators in Port Harcourt, Rivers State at the weekend, Nature Kieghe Dumale, explained that making the identities of such persons public would act as a warning to others seeking to do business with the commission.

Dumale commended the leadership style of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Umana Okon Umana, and congratulated the board, which has Dr. Sam Ogbuku as the Managing Director and Lauretta Onochie as the Chairperson.

But Dumale appealed to the new board to win the hearts of the people by naming politicians, contractors, and firms, that were accused by the report of mismanaging their engagements with the commission.

Dumale, who is the Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) Strategic Communication Committee (SCC) appealed to the board to initiate an inquiry into how former Interim Administrators of the commission spent about N300bn that accrued to the NDDC within his tenure.

He said the board, by publishing the names of those indicted by the forensic audit report and probing the N300bn expenditure would earn the confidence of the public and prove that it would no longer be business as usual.

He insisted that the Niger Delta, which owns the NDDC, deserved...