Akpabio, who said this on a Radio Nigeria audience participatory programme organised at the Radio House in Abuja, said: “For example, they could go to any international institution and get money to embark on major projects to change the lives of the Niger Delta people. xHe added that people were commending the president for the efforts, maintaining that the delay notwithstanding, when the exercise was completed, the NDDC would not remain the same again. The minister recalled that the forensic auditors were engaged to scrutinise the activities of the NDDC that was mired in allegation of massive corruption to change the narrative of the Niger Delta region. x“It also tallies with the quest to develop facilities that can be salvaged and whether appropriations made to the NDDC are commiserate with developments on ground,” he stated. “For the first time a minister visited the NDDC headquarters that the defunct Oil Minerals Producing Areas Development Commission (OMPADEC) started in 1996, but abandoned over the years.

Source: The Guardian July 01, 2021 04:17 UTC