Corruption so far uncovered in NDDC
• “People were treating the place (NDDC) as an ATM, where you just walk in there to go and pluck money and go away” -Godswill Akpabio
• “NDDC has 12,000 abandoned projects in the Niger Delta” -Godswill Akpabio
• “There is no way NDDC road can last (for) even two years” -Godswill Akpabio
• NDDC owes over N2 trillion to contractors- Godswill Akpabio
• The Federal Government owes NDDC N1trillion in 10 years- NDDC Management
• “N2.5billion budgeted by NDDC for desilting and clearing of water hyacinths inflated to N65billion”- Senate Public Accounts Committee
• “A particular NDDC contract was awarded 55 times”- Former Acting MD Joi Nunieh
• Over 55 NDDC Interim Payment Certificate issued for a contract awarded in a particular state- Former Acting MD Joi Nunieh
• Fake photographs of completed jobs are submitted for NDDC payments. Sometimes the same photos are submitted for different projects -Former Acting MD Joi Nunieh
• “People collect contracts for the same roads from the state government, from FERMA and then they come to NDDC and collect the same road project”- Former Acting MD Joi Nunieh
• $70million of NDDC money was stored in a commercial bank since 2006- Godswill Akpabio
• N170 million NDDC funds abandoned in a bank for years- Godswill Akpabio
• Some banks deliberately withhold money belonging to NDDC- Godswill Akpabio
• NDDC pays N300 million annually as rent for its office space while its headquarter building started 23 years ago is uncompleted- Godswill Akpabio
• NDDC pays fee of N1billion monthly to a consultant that collects money from International Oil Companies (IOCs), on its behalf- Former Acting MD Joi Nunieh
• NDDC gave N4.3billion cash grants to NGOs, 90% of which were not registered- Godswill Akpabio
• Past NDDC management awarded 1,921 ‘emergency contracts’ at N1.070 trillion in seven months, against an annual budget of about N400 billion- NDDC Interim Management Committee
• NDDC contracts worth over N67billion were never executed- House of Representatives Committee
• NDDC made excess payments of N5.8 billion to contractors- House of Representatives Committee
• NDDC awarded a N34million consultancy for ‘Reputation Management’- Kolawole Johnson
• N641million was paid to consultants for ‘Media Support for Forensic Audit’. – Johnson Kolawole
• Payment for contracts are routinely channeled into the private accounts of NDDC staff’- Johnson Kolawole
• Money meant for NDDC contracts were paid into the private account of Bureau d’ Change Operators- Johnson Kolawole
• NDDC leadership paid funds meant for student scholarships into private bank accounts’ -Johnson Kolawole
• ‘No Forensic Audit on NDDC is currently going on’- Former Acting MD Joi Nunieh
• Contracts are given to unregistered companies and companies still undergoing registration – Former Acting MD Joi Nunieh
• “Godswill Akpabio asked me to award N5billion contract for the supply of materials that were already in the NDDC Warehouse”- Former Acting MD Joi Nunieh
• 60 Percent of NDDC Contracts are awarded to National Assembly Members- Godswill Akpabio Minister of Niger Delta Affairs
• While the Probe Panel was still sitting, another fraudulent payment of N691 million was made by the NDDC- House of Reps Probe Panel
• NDDC had up to 311 accounts in various banks- Godswill Akpabio Minister of Niger Delta Affairs
• In one day, NDDC made multiple transactions of N49milion out of the Commission’s account.- Godswill Akpabio Minister of Niger Delta Affairs
. NDDC spent N1.5 billion for staff as ‘COVID-19 relief funds’. – Kemebradikumo Pondei head of NDDC IMC
