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BREAKING: 30 Lawmakers Implicated By Akpabio In NDDC N100bn Contract Scandal To Face Panel [SEE LIST]
Jul 28, 2020
Thirty (30) lawmakers have been mandated to appear before the House of Representatives' Committee on Ethics and Privileges having been implicated by Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta in controversial 2018 emergency projects contracts worth N100bn.
Akpabio had last week forwarded a bombshell letter to the House, listing the 30 lawmakers as beneficiaries of contracts awarded by the distressed Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Reps Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila who declared his keenness to get to the root of the matter, then referred the Minister's letter to the Committee for further investigation.
Some of the members listed in the controversial letter are from Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Ondo, Imo states as well as unnamed ‘Caucus in the House of Representatives’.
In the three-page letter with Ref No: MNDA/HM/041/ IV/158 dated 23rd July 2020 and entitled ‘Some Niger Delta Development Commission contracts allegedly given to some members of the National Assembly (Senate and House of Representatives)’, Akpabio alleged that the investigating committee on NDDC refused and/or neglected to give him the “opportunity to explain the reference to most NDDC contracts yearly being awarded since 2001 from the records allegedly to members of the National Assembly in both chambers.
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