The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio who curiously asked and got the nod to allegedly usurp the statutory powers of President Muhammadu Buhari to enable him annex and have a firm control of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NNDC, under his powers had in a split of weeks have his fingers burnt in controversies.
However, when grilled on telephone, Akpabio’s media aide, Aniete Ekong, said the incident about alleged N1.9 billion scam followed a protest in PortHarcourt by some irate youths who besieged a hotel where Akpabio was holding a meeting in company of the then Minister of State of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Festus Kayamo.
The spokesperson of the aggrieved former militants, General Ebi, had called on Buhari to direct the anti-graft agencies to immediately swing into action over the matter.
He said, “It is so pathetic, disgusting and shameful that our so-called leaders are the real problem in the Niger Delta, if a distinguished leader that was once the governor of Akwa Ibom state for 8years and is currently the minister of Niger Delta Affairs will condescend so low to have appropriated 400 slots of the water hyacinth contract to himself after accusing the former NDDC board of misdeeds.
“We, therefore, use this medium to call on the attention of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari to direct the EFCC and the ICPC to immediately swing into action and we also call on the honourable minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio to come out clean and exonerate himself as his reputation is being dragged to the mud to defraud the youths of the Niger Delta’.
But Akpabio’s spokesman who dismissed the whole allegations of graft against Akpabio as unfounded and baseless said he did not have the understanding of the questionable payment files currently submitted on the directive of Akpabio for payment.
sources Daily post
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