President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, February 26, approved the composition of a committee to monitor the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Mr Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom State, said last year that the NDDC was bedevilled by corruption, so much so that the commission was being seen as an automated teller machine (ATM) “where people could just walk in to pick cash”.
Mr Akpabio later claimed that the NDDC ‘abandoned’ $70 million in a bank for 13 years, while hundreds of its projects remain abandoned and uncompleted across the oil producing states, partly due to non-release of funds.
