Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill
Akpabio has challenged the National Assembly over probe of the Delta
Development Commission (NDDC).
The legislature is investigating
financial activities of the agency.
On Thursday, the former Akwa Ibom
Governor told lawmakers that the probe should cover all the years of NDDC’s
existence.
He spoke when members of the
Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) visited him in
Abuja.
Akpabio urged Nigerians to “ask
questions”.
“How come it is only now that
even our parliament has found it necessary to conduct a selective probe of
NDDC? Instead of beginning from the inception, year 2001, they are now doing
five months probe out of almost 20 years of existence. Why?
“NDDC has been in existence since
1999; what is really happening now? How is it all petitions on earth are happening?
When the wind blows, it blows along with the answer,” he said.
He recalled that after President
Muhammadu Buhari ordered the forensic audit of NDDC, he pointed out that as
soon as this forensic audit commences, “hell would be let loose”.
The minister said the campaign
against him and the Interim Management Committee “is so well-funded that you
hardly open a newspaper and you don’t see a screaming headline”.
Akpabio added that all everyone
is talking about is corruption in five months, “not corruption in 19 years and
seven months”.
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