Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, chairman of the house of representatives
committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has recused himself
from the probe.
Kemebradikumo Pondei, acting managing director of the NDDC,
walked out on the committee last week after alleging that Tunji-Ojo and Peter
Nwaoboshi, his counterpart at the senate, padded the 2019 budget of the
commission.
At the meeting of the house committee on NDDC last Thursday,
Pondei stormed out of the session after insisting that Tunji-Ojo, its chairman,
would not preside.
He said Tunji-Ojo had been fingered in the alleged fraud at
the NDDC and so, cannot sit over the same matter in which he is an accused.
His statement irked members of the committee which issued an
arrest warrant against the NDDC acting MD and other members of the interim
management committee.
The chairman was alleged to have been awarded a road contract
by the NDDC, before the new interim management came on board.
But he had denied the allegation which he described as
baseless, and challenged anyone with evidence to bring it forward.
“I am the Chairman of the House Committee on NDDC in the
House of Representatives and I say without equivocation that I do not have any
contract whatsoever at the commission,” Tunji-Ojo had said.
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