Disgusted and shocked by the cesspool that has become the Niger Delta Development Commission, all-rounded Actress, Kate Henshaw has called every Niger Deltan out to the streets.
What to do?
Henshaw says they should occupy the headquarters of the NDDC, and allow nobody into the premises.
And more:
She said they should occupy the residents and homes of every Niger Deltan, who had ever occupied the position of the Chairman, Managing Director, or Executive Director in the NDDC, including those currently occupying the positions.
Following is Henshaw’s post, copied from her Face Book page, where she also chronicled alleged scandals exposed, so far, at the NDDC.
“Every right thinking Niger Deltan should be on the streets protesting. No one should be allowed to enter that edifice of fraud called the NDDC office. We should occupy that building.
“Everyone who has ever been Director, Chairman or member of board of NDDC should be besieged. We should keep vigil on their houses, send them text messages, demand answers from them, question the source of their wealth, ask them deep questions about their integrity. We should demand that they be thoroughly investigated and prosecuted.
“They didn’t only steal ‘NDDC money’, they stole the development of the region, they stole the future of a people. By their corruption, they stole education and made countless Niger Deltans illiterate, they stole healthcare and killed countless children, they stole money meant for generating employment and made millions jobless. They stole money for road construction and caused the death of our people through accidents.
“These are murderers. They have killed this region and its people. This is the time to call out these heartless thieves.
“See the list of criminality below:
“This views shouldn’t be strictly mine… it should be the view of every Niger Deltan, every Nigerian.
Notes on Corruption 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
For the records, this magazine confirms that Pondei, on Monday, when he appeared before the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee probing the NDDC, said the amount spent on selves as palliatives, was a paltry N1.32bn only, not N1.5bn.
