List of contractors authentic, not compiled by Akpabio – NDDC
Prominent names on
the list compiled in 2018 are former Governors, Orji Uzor Kalu (Abia), James
Ibori (Delta}, Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta) and Senator Peter Nwaoboshi.
While some of these
politicians have denied benefitting from NDDC contracts, the commission however
enjoined those whose names appeared in the list not to panic as it has been
uncovered that some people used their names to get the jobs.
The NDDC who further
disclosed that the 2018 list was part of the avalanche of documents submitted
to its forensic auditors, added that there were other sets of lists of
emergency project contracts awarded in 2017 and 2019 not submitted to the
National Assembly.
Charles Odili,
NDDC’s director of corporate affairs also revealed that the list does not
include a case of 250 contracts which were signed for and collected in one day
by one person for members of the National Assembly.
He expressed
confidence in the ongoing forensic audit unearthing persons behind the
contracts and also disclosed that the commission has positioned 185 media
support specialists to identify the site of every project captured in its books
for verification by the forensic auditors.
Odili said;
“The Interim
Management Committee of the commission stands by the list which came from files
already in the possession of the forensic auditors,” he said.
“It is not an
Akpabio list but the NDDC’s list; the list is part of the volume of 8,000
documents already handed over to the forensic auditors.
“Prominent indigenes
of the Niger Delta whose names were on the list should not panic as the
commission knew that people used the names of prominent persons in the region
to secure contracts, and the ongoing forensic audit would unearth those behind
the contracts.
“[The] intention of
the list was to expose committee chairmen in the national assembly who used
fronts to collect contracts from the commission, some of which were never
executed.”
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