Former Acting Managing Director of Interim Management Committee of the
Niger Delta Development Commission, Joy Nunieh has made some damning
allegations against the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator
Godswill Akpabio, Daily Post reports.
The former Acting MD addressed the press after she appeared before the Senate ad hoc Committee investigating NDDC.
Nunieh in the interview recounted her alleged ordeal in the hands of Akpabio before she was removed as the NDDC MD.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had in February 2020 reorganized
the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development
Commission (NDDC), replacing Barrister Joy Nunieh with Professor
Kemebradikumo Pondei, as Acting Managing Director.
Buhari also approved the enlargement of the IMC from three to five.
She said “Nobody makes any payment in NDDC without Godswill
Akpabio’s approval. When we first came, on the day of the inauguration,
he said to me in the car, ‘Madam MD, if you don’t do what I say, the
same pen with which I used to sign your paper is the same pen I’ll use
to remove you.
“He said the first thing I should do when I get to Port Harcourt is to
change the dollars in the NDDC account. I was scared to do that and he
claimed that I have a poverty mentality that I’m afraid of money. All of
you knew that he accused me of refusing to spend money. It is strange
today, it’s about money.
“After that, he came to Port Harcourt two days after the inauguration
and told me that the first thing I should do was to change the dollars.”
The former Acting MD further accused Akpabio of pressuring her to take the oath of loyalty, but she resisted.
“He told me to take an oath. Though he denied that, he told me, three
times until we had a reconciliation at the Villa in the office of Mr.
Abba who is the S.A. to the President on domestics.
“In that meeting was Alhaji Maikano and he said the only condition is
when I take the oath and I didn’t take the oath and will never take it.
“After that, he said, he was going to remove me and he started the
campaign of calumny against me. I didn’t even answer him because the
fact will speak for itself.
“I refused to go with him to the FEC meeting to deceive Mr. President
and the reason is because the law says if I contravene a section of the
procurement Act, it’s five years imprisonment without an option of
fine,” she said.
“So if I had gone with him to deceive Mr. President, I would have
been in trouble because they said it’s the 2020 budget, but Akpabio went
and got approval when the budget was not ready.
“One of the issues raised against me was that I awarded contracts
without them knowing about it. I’m sure that is what they told you
people yesterday.
“Apparently, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh never sits in the office, so he never
knew the workings and the bureaucracy of payments in the office.
“There are different steps to take before payments are made in NDDC.
One, there is the issue of Lassa fever which obviously they didn’t carry
along.
“Nobody makes payments in NDDC without Godswill Akpabio’s consent.
He said I should remove Mr. Katulgo from the legal unit and send him on
compulsory retirement. I refused to do it. He said we cannot have a
northerner as head of the legal unit.
“I said, I cannot do that. I do not have the powers because I am just an
IMC. It’s a criminal offense, and against public service rules for me
to do that. He said I should repost all other directors that refused to
take his instruction during my predecessor’s time, that is, the person
who was there before I came.
“So, he came and asked me to draft a letter on my letterhead
implicating Senator Peter Nwaoboshi for collecting contracts in NDDC. I
told him that I will not do that. I am a lawyer. Whoever alleges must
prove.
“He said Senator Nwaoboshi is giving us trouble and besides he didn’t
recognize the IMC. I said I will not do that letter. He said I was
ungrateful and I refused to do that letter.
“Dr. Cairo said he would do the letter. He said if Akpabio asked him to
kill, he would kill first before asking why he killed. And I said, for
me, I will not do that.
“At that place, there was one Mr. Etiebet who was the only NDDC staff
that was present at that meeting. He now asked Dr. Cairo to go and send
for letterheads from the office.
“Dr. Cairo did the letter alleging that Senator Nwaoboshi had contracts
with NDDC and I said if I signed, any document from me seen by Mr.
President, he will believe. So I will only write that the EDP knows
about it.
“The next thing he told me is that I should make sure these people leave
the procurement. Before I came when he and Festus Keyamo became
Ministers, in their first meeting, they awarded 30 contracts of water
hyacinths.”
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