Acting Managing Director (MD) of the Niger Delta Development
Commission (NDDC), Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei, has stated that the
Commission could not get fair hearing from an investigative committee chaired
by Hon Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo.
Professor Pondei made this remark at the sitting of a House
Committee on NDDC to investigate alleged malfeasance on the part of the
Commission.
The NDDC boss posited that Hon Tunji-Ojo had been accused on
many occasions of crimes inimical to the growth and development of the
Commission.
The MD/CEO was of the view that the Committee Chairman did
not have the clean hands to sit in judgement over the affairs of the commission.
He, therefore, refused to speak to the Committee and rather
took a bow and left.
The House Committee, based on the resolution at the plenary
of the House in May 2020, is currently investigating the alleged spending by
the Interim Management Committee of the NDDC.
At the opening ceremony of the investigative hearing on
Tuesday, the Committee Chairman, Tunji-Ojo, alleged that the IMC had spent the
sum of N81.5bn from the coffers of the NDDC, from February to May 2020, without
due process.
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