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  • AGF: NDDC yet to reply to indictment

    AGF: NDDC yet to reply to indictment

    Weeks after the Auditor General of the Federation indicted the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) of not accounting for N183.7 billion the NDDC is yet to respond to the indictment.

    A statement released yesterday by the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation (OAuGF) and signed by Ogunmosunle, O.A. for the auditor general stated that “at the time of this Press Release, the NDDC is yet to respond to the Special Periodic Checks.”

    The statement noted that “it took NDDC, 16 months to grant the Office permission to commence the periodic checks beginning from 9thDecember, 2011 to 6th May, 2013.  Similarly, it took another 16 months and several reminders to the NDDC with effect from the 24th of April, 2014 to 12th August, 2015 before the final report was submitted to the National Assembly.”

    The auditor general decried media reports alleged to be engineered by the NDDC “denying and casting aspersions on the Special Periodic Checks recently submitted to the National Assembly.”

    The Office of the Auditor General said it stands by its report and its contents despite “the negative sentiments occasioned by the NDDC’s condemnation of the Special Periodic Checks in various media calculated to demean the efficacy of the Constitutional mandate carried out by the Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation.”

    The statement maintained that “the Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation has a constitutional mandate to submit its Reports to the National Assembly and in doing so, due process are usually followed.”

    The NDDC was reminded that if it “is not satisfied with the contents of the Special Report it has the opportunity to defend itself before the Public Accounts Committees (PACs) of the National Assembly.”

  • N183.7bn: NDDC faults AGF’s report

    The Niger Delta Development Commission on Wednesday faulted the Auditor General of the Federation’s report which claimed that N183.7 billion could not be accounted for by the commission.

    The AGF, Mr. Samuel Ukura, had told journalists in Abuja after submitting three special reports to the National Assembly that N183.7 billion could not be accounted for between 2008 to 2012 audit years.

    But the Executive Director, Finance and Administration in NDDC, Dr. Henry Ogiri said the report by the AGF was premature and did not follow the ethical standards of accounting profession.

    He questioned the timeliness of the report and its motive, adding that the AGF was only playing to the anti corruption tune of President Muhammadu Buhari by releasing the report.

    He queried why the AGF had to wait for five years to audit the commission’s account, adding that the report, which covered 2008 – 2012, did not fall under the current management of the commission.

    Ogiri, who spoke on Focus Nigeria, a weekly programme on African Independent Television (AIT), added that the commission will respond to the queries raised by the AGF’s report.

     

  • NDDC Auditor‘s Report: Matters Arising

    The recent controversial 2008 – 2012 report of the Auditor General of the Federation (AGF) on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has thrown up questions of procedure, propriety and due diligence in the overall conduct of the AGF in the matter. Did the AGF follow the normal procedure in the audit process, whereby queries, if any, are first presented to the relevant organisation and responses received before a final report? Is the AGF aware that the NDDC does not write cheques and give same to contractors, but that everything to do with payments is between duly certified contractors and the banks, which must verify the specific details of extent of work before payments? Is it true that banks only make payments after the respective contractors have met the specific and specified requirements for every tranche of payment and that it is the banks, not the NDDC, that must see to this even in their own interest as responsible corporate citizens?  Did the Office of the AGF even take the trouble to ascertain the paradigms governing many of the issues it chose to comment upon, and without recourse to those who could have explained the issues? Fortunately, the Director of Finance and Accounts of the NDDC has put a couple of things in proper perspective.

    Until this audit report of questionable credibility, all news about the Commission was always either about the new approaches of its current leadership to ensure probity, or the commissioning of hitherto abandoned projects. The new school hostels in eight universities was one such intervention that recently took over the media space, in addition to the completion of projects suspended by previous leadership. Road networks rehabilitation and completion in several states have been going hand-in-hand with employment creation and youth empowerment programmes. There are legacy projects, the Partnership for Sustainable Development (PSD) Forum – and much more – under the current leadership. That is why Nigerians must be careful, especially since mischief-makers may use the misinformation and half truths of the audit report to undermine the very impressive strides and reputation of the current focused and hard working NDDDC leadership team.

    The fact that the Report in question covers the period 2008 – 2012, the reading public must make a distinction between the endemic problems of the NDDC long before its current management, and the performance of this current leadership. In fact the Auditor‘s Report is perhaps the best proof that all had not been well with the Commission, until very recently. The period under review by the AGF (2008-2012), recorded a total of almost half a dozen chief executives. This epidemic of Acting Managing Directors and substantive Managing Directors gave the NDDC a total of five Chief Executives between 2008 and 2013, when the current Managing Director assumed office.

    Timi Alaibe was in charge from 2007, until 2009 when P. Z. Aginighan took over. Aginigham was Acting MD from April to August, 2009, when he was replaced by Chibuzo Ugwoha. The latter held forth from August 2009 to September 2011. Then came Mrs Osatohamwen Iyasere-Arenyeka as Acting MD from September 2011 to November of the same year. Dr Chris Oboh was MD from November 2011 to September 2013, when Mrs. Christy Atako took over. The incumbent Managing Director, Bassey Dan-Abia, took over in December 2013 and has a four year tenure that will end in 2017.

    We would only be further disabilising the place if energies are now focused on management change, rather than service delivery, which the current team is doing so well and recording remarkable achievements within the last 18 months.

    As I write, some people are busy right now spreading the falsehood that it was only the Board of the NDDC that was dissolved by the Federal Government. This is incorrect. The decision of the Federal Government to dissolve the Boards of parastatals and agencies affected all Boards. Besides, the Board of an organisation is not the same as its management. It is also important to note that the government’s decision is not a condemnation of the NDDC Board, or any Board for that matter, but an action deemed necessary by the current political dispensation. It is not new. It is also not peculiar to the Government of President Buhari, as a cursory look at our political history from independence, shows that this is part of the national political process in other nations of the world.

    The Federal Government must not be misled into overlooking the fact that the last two years of the Commission‘s life has been the most eventful, in terms of positive impact and a structured reversal of the hitherto prevailing bad reputation of the organization. That is why the ongoing, and clearly sponsored, attempts to smear the NDDC as an institution, and impugn the integrity of its management, should be seen for the campaign of calumny that it is.

    Is it not a matter of public record that the first step taken by the current management after its inauguration was to notify all stakeholders that it needed a calm reassessment of all that had been going on in the NDDC, with a view to ascertaining the number and spread of uncompleted projects? The emphasis has been on completing outstanding projects with measurable impact on the lives of the people, rather than starting new ones. The Dan-Abia team, on inauguration, proceeded on a well-organised retreat and came out with enough information on what had gone wrong and what it needed to do in order to straighten things out. The new helmsman began by taking sure, steady and measured steps. The steps are also in the right direction.

    Being a brilliant, well exposed and experienced hand in his own right, the current MD‘s previous stints in various capacities gave him a certain managerial advantage. That is perhaps why he gave himself the historical role of redefining the profile, reputation and trajectory of this agency of government, while remaining faithful to its raison d‘etre. This commitment to real goals of the Commission has made the new NDDC MD’s approach a major beacon of hope for communities long frustrated by still-born projects that were abandoned by previous managements.

    Instead of taking off on a tangent with emphasis on new contracts, Dan-Abia chose to face real issues. Over time, since assumption of office, the new management has been solving the problems it identified after that initial four-day retreat, the communiqué of which noted “… weaknesses in management systems and procedures, corruption, defects in the organisational structure, disconnect between staff performance and reward system, weak interface between head office and state offices, poor corporate communication culture and in-fighting within the commission.”

    This truth, which the current leadership discovered and is dealing with, is what a lot of people connected with the agency over the years have done everything to deny. The effect of the denial is that all attempts at revamping the NDDC and giving it a new lease of life always failed, because they all began with a denial of the problems. Now that the problems have been properly identified and real work has begun, with the visible increase in the number of ongoing and completed projects across all the NDDC states, the Federal Government under Buhari should simply know that those who wish to distabilise the NDDC, under the mistaken impression that it is a place for free booty, should be made to look elsewhere for such booty and leave the hard working leadership of the Commission alone.

  • Coalition urges NDDC to establish micro-credit schemes

    A coalition of Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) has urged the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to institute micro-credit schemes.

    The collation, Niger Delta Network Advancement Program (NDNAP), in a statement  in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, advocated for the initiation of some palliative measures including grants for Micro Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMSEs) to calm the frayed nerves of youths.

    The statement signed by NDNAP President, Al mustapher Emem Edoho and Jubril Uwem Edukere, Board of Trustees (BoT) member, commended the Commission under the Managing Director, Sir Bassey Dan Abia, noting that his time has witnessed strategic interventions with positive impacts in the region.

    Edoho, who disclosed that the NDDC under Abia’s watch has effectively complemented the Federal Government’s development agenda for the region, said the decision of the group to give the Commission a pass mark was a fallout of what he called “reality check” embarked upon by the group in recent times.

    During the inspection, the group, according to Edoho, took inventory of Abia’s performance, noting that “within this short time as the Commission’s Managing Director, the NDDC has gotten a befitting 12-storey building that will serve as the permanent headquarters since it was established in 2000”.

    “The people of Niger Delta will be proud of the building which is awaiting commissioning by Mr. President”, he added.

    Besides, he pointed out that the Commission, in spite challenges of funding, has intervened in roads, bridges, hostels facilities in tertiary institutions, scholarship grants for indigent students and youths’ empowerment to address the restiveness of youths in the region.

    “We call on NDDC to initiate micro, small and medium enterprise grants or loans to further stimulate the economic development of the region and accelerate poverty reduction,” he said.

  • NDDC can’t account for N183b

    NDDC can’t account for N183b

    The special audit conducted on the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has revealed that N183.7 billion could not be accounted for between 2008 and 2012.

    The Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr Samuel Ukura, spoke with reporters yesterday after submitting three report to the National Assembly.

    Ukura added that his office submitted the environmental audit on the drying up of Lake Chad and special periodic checks on the activities and programmes of the NDDC.

    He said a lot of discrepancies were noticed in the NDDC accounts with about N183.7 billion expected to be refunded to the federation account.

    A breakdown of what the NDDC will return to the Federation Account, Ukura said, includes the N70.4 billion unaccounted for from the mobilisation of various contractors that never reported to site; the N5.8 billion paid to contractors for projects not executed or abandoned; N90.5 billion spent on extra budgetary expenditure without approval by legal authorities; N1.2 billion undeducted taxes from contractors; N10.07 billion to be refunded as tax deductions made without evidence of remittance to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS); N3.1 billion transferred to unauthorised accounts and unaccountable staff advances of N1.7 billion.

    Ukura said: “It is our belief that all the money spent by government, if it was properly spent in the region, Niger Delta would be a better place.”

    He added that N785 million of N1.1 billion allegedly paid to contracts for the supply of furniture to various schools in Delta State was also unaccounted for.

    The Auditor-General noted that additional details of their findings are contained in the report he submitted to the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr Salisu Maikasuwa.

  • Group hails NDDC, tells President to shun sycophancy

    Group hails NDDC, tells President to shun sycophancy

    As President Muhammadu Buhari continues to implement his development plans for Nigerians, a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) committed to the development and welfare of the Niger Delta region, has advocated for the strengthening of the commission to complement the Federal Government’s agenda for the zone.

    Niger Delta Network Advancement Programme (NDNAP), a coalition of civil society groups crusading for the mitigation of problems of poverty, disaster and climate in the region, noted that the climate of insecurity hitherto prevalent in the region has been doused in the recent times.

    The President of the group, Al mustapher Edoho, in a statement yesterday in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, attributed the return of peace in Niger Delta to the NDDC’s pro-active steps and total commitment to the development plans of the region.

    The statement, which was also endorsed by the Board of Trustees (BoT) member, Jubril Uwem Edukere, and the Secretary, Elder Emman Okpodighe, expressed confidence in the leadership of the Managing Director, Sir. Bassey Dan Abia, saying his era has witnessed more development projects in the region.

    While successive leaderships of the commission could not effectively tackle the infrastructural problem of the region, Edoho noted that several abandoned projects had been completed during the current era.

    Some of those projects he listed include network of roads, rural electrification, schools renovation, classrooms and hostel facilities in tertiary institutions, scholarships and empowerment for indigent students.

    Besides, Edoho disclosed that the NDDC, under Mr. Abia, has succeeded in erecting no fewer than 12 storey buildings, nine hostel facilities in Niger Delta universities and completed a modern and befitting headquarters for the commission.

    “Before now, the NDDC used to be in a rented facility. Now, under the current Managing Director, the commission will soon move to its permanent headquarters”, Edoho assured, adding that the delay in relocating the agency to its permanent site was for the President to personally commission it.

    Commending the President for his smooth take-off as the fourth elected President since the return of democracy in 1999, the group enjoined Nigerians to support Buhari in his quest to fix Nigeria.

    “It is time for every concerned citizen of Nigeria to be part of the rebuilding process of Nigeria instead of offering baseless criticisms and other unguarded utterances from the sideline”, the group said.

  • Fed Govt urged to release N800b owed NDDC

    Fed Govt urged to release N800b owed NDDC

    The Board of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has pleaded with the Federal Government to release the N800 billion it owes the organisation.

    The NDDC said that failure to release the funds has hampered the Commission’s progress in pursuing ongoing projects as well as embarking on fresh infrastructural development.

    Speaking in Umuahia during a courtesy call on Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, the chairman of NDDC Governing Board, Senator Bassey Ewa-Henshaw said that there is need for the funds to be released for the board to work effectively.

    Ewa-Hemshaw solicited the assistance of Governors of NDDC states, in ensuring that Federal Ministry of Finance complies with  the NDDC acts as it relates to funding, adding that his Board inherited over 7,000 projects at inception.

    He said this is in addition to  liabilities the Commission inherited, which is in excess of N1trillion, including approved but unpaid IPCS of over N300b and still growing.

    Ewa-Henshaw said that it was for this reason that they spent their first year in office pursuing the completion of ongoing projects like the students hostel, which was later commissioned by the state governor at Umudike.

    He said, “In spite of this, funding remain an intractable challenge, and between 2001 and now more than N800 billion of funding due to NDDC has been withheld by the Federal Government”.

    The NDDC board chairman cited Section 14, 2A and C of the NDDC Act, which has to do with funding of the Commissioned which he said have not been complied with.

    He stated further  that  at the best of times, the Federal Government contribution to NDDC amounts to a mere 20% of her annual budget, adding that in  this circumstances, progress with ongoing projects and programmes have been difficult .

    The NDDC boss said, “And starting new major infrastructural development, which should be the focus of this commission, has been impossible. We solicit your help in ensuring that the Federal Ministry of Finance complies with the NDDC Act as it relates to funding.

    “It would also be very helpful to work out a programme for the release of funds so far withheld. These releases can be tied to specific projects on roads, rail, power and even oil refining”.

    He said that the commission is already in discussion with some major multinationals to form partnerships that can bring substantial benefits to NDDC states, adding that Aba-Ikot-Ekpene-Calabar roads, can be one of the first projects that can benefit from the discussions.

    Ewa-Henshaw said, “With more than three hundred quarries,  two cement plants and a host of oil tank farms, all in Cross River, and the heavy commercial activities flowing from Aba southwards, there are about an estimated 7,000 or more vehicular traffic daily along that road, and about three or four thousand of these are trucks.

    It is easy to see that reconstruction and dualizing this road will be of enormous economic benefit. I believe that this type of venture will key into your vision and complement your developmental aspirations for Abia state. This is what NDDC is set up to do and this is what we will like to be doing”.

    Responding Ikpeazu promised to associate himself with NDDC boss lofty ideas, especially where it concerns road infrastructure around two major states.

    Ikpeazu said that he would liaise with governors of NDDC states to assess the authorities for the release of funds that is due to the Commission, adding that if it is well with NDDC, it will also be well with the states that are stakeholders in this project.

  • nddc inaugurates 19 projects

    The Niger Delta Development commission (NDDC) has inaugurated 19 abandoned and failed projects in the past15 months.

    Its Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Sir Bassey Dan-Abia, stated this in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital at the handing over of a prototype hostel to the  University of Uyo.

    He said the contract for the prototype hostel was awarded to Basestar Engineering Ltd in 2004, but was delayed due to administration lapses and other logistical problems for almost 10 years.

    The commission under the management, he said, within one year in office, had completed nine hostels in various educational institutions in the Niger Delta region.

    He announced the donation of a 500KVA generator to the community where the 500-bed hostel is sited, promising that the commission would do more for the region if the host communities to protect government’s facilities in their area.

    The NDDC boss assured that the commission would complete all  projects, noting that the commission had funding constraints but expressed confidence that the government was ready to touch the lives of all, especially the people of Niger Delta who have remained under developed in spite of their natural resources.

    Vice-Chancellor of UNIUYO, Prof  Comfort Ekpo thanked the Akwa Ibom State Government for donating the land on which the hostel facility was built.

    She praised the management of NDDC for the gesture, believing that the second hostel project funded by the commission at the permanent site of the university would be completed and handed over.

    Describing the hostel for medical students as unique, the VC said the facility would create employment, engender peace on campus as well as attract development to the host community and the state.

    Mrs Ekpo noted that the NDDC had been a dependable ally in infrastructural development in the university. She requested that more should be done by the NDDC to take the university to higher heights.

    The Chairman of the NDDC Board, Chief Bassey Ewa Henshaw, also praised the Akwa Ibom State Government for providing the enabling environment and support for the NDDC to bring development to all sectors.

  • NDDC inaugurates 500-bed hostels for UUTH medical students

    NDDC inaugurates 500-bed hostels for UUTH medical students

    It was joyful moment for medical students of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH) and the people of Use Ikot Ebio in Akwa Ibom as the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) inaugurate 500 bed-space hostels for UUTH medical students.

    Speaking during the commissioning of the project, the NDDC’s Managing Director, Bassey Dan-Abia, said the NDDC had inaugurated nine hotels in different universities in the last one year.

    According to Dan-Abia, when the present board came in, the contract for the project was awarded in 2004 with 19 others but the board placed emphasis on the completion of all on-going projects in line with the Federal Government’s directive.

    The NDDC boss also said the University and the host community would enjoy 500 KVA transformers. Also donated by NDDC is a 275KVA generator.

    His words: “This project started some 10 years ago with 19 others. When this present board came in, we placed emphasis on the completion of existing projects. As I am talking to you, we have nine University hostels we have commissioned within the last one year.

    “We had to amend the original plan because we noticed that the University had no access road and perimeter fencing. The host community and the University will also enjoy 500KVA transformers.”

    Also the Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom Emmanuel commended NDDC for the gesture.

    Emmanule explained that the provision of the hostels accommodation will go a long way in improving the capacity of the teaching hospital to train more doctors.

    The governor, who was represented by his deputy, Moses Ekpo said the state government being an agent of growth and development would continue to partner agencies of government so that the needed development can come to the state.

    He said: “With this project, the capacity of the teaching hospital to train more doctors will improve. As a people we are grateful to the federal government for the gesture. Together, as agents of growth, we will continue to bring dividend of democracy to our people.”

    The governor also appealed to host communities not to encroach on the land they willingly give to institutions of government.

    In his speech, UUTH’s Chief Medical Director, Prof. Etete Peters urged NDDC to construct a link road from the hostel to the teaching hospital.

    Prof Peters said: “This is not the only project that has lasted a decade. At the UUTH, we also have projects that are scattered all around. Please, also help us to intervene so that we can see the quick completion of the project.”

  • Youth groups sing discordant tune over NDDC

    Youth groups sing discordant tune over NDDC

    as the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) under Chief Bassey Dan-Abia been transparent? This is a question that youths in the Niger Delta have been unable to answer in one voice.

    To a youth group, the Niger Delta Transparency and Integrity Coalition, Abia has run the agency with utmost sense of responsibility. But another youth group, the Aggrieved Voice of Niger Delta wants President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the Abia-led management of the interventionist agency.

    The leader of the Niger Delta Transparency and Integrity Coalition,  Chief Ngoye Iyalla  also faulted a report which claimed that the Abia-led management has borrowed N2.5 billion from an unnamed  bank.

    The report, which was credited to Chief Ngoye Iyalla, also claimed that the loan is being serviced with N2.5 million monthly.

    In a statement in Port Harcourt, the  Rivers State capital, its National President, Chiagorom Nwonkwo, dismissed the allegations, insisting that the Board has no such powers to borrow money without the approval of the nine governors of the Niger Delta states and the Federal Government.

    The youths stated that the report was a cheap blackmail to discredit the good works of the present NDDC Board, the youths vowed never to fold their arms and watch some disgruntled elements to destroy their (youths), tomorrow.

    They called on the Chief Iyallla to come up with verifiable  evidence to prove his accusations, otherwise refute his allegations, or face legal action by the youths.

    According to them, the present management of the commission has performed well having inherited an empty treasury and debt to the tune of N300 billion from its predecessor, and accumulated unpaid appropriation to the tune of N745 billion since its inception in 2001.

    They maintained that the commission is grossly underfunded and owed by the Federal Government, appealed to President  Mohammadu Buhari to look into this claim, with the view to addressing it and releasing the monies owed the commission.

    “NDDC is an interventionist agency. Every state in the Niger Delta has sitting executives (the governors) and they are involved in different projects. As an interventionist agency, the commission’s mandate is to identify the immediate needs of the people of the area and address them.

    “Between 2001 the commission was established and 2014, NDDC is being owed N745 billion by the Federal Government. The NDDC Act recommended that 10 per cent ecological fund should be given to it, but the commission has  not seen the fund since its establishment.

    “Also oil companies in the region supposed to remit 3 per cent of its annual profit to the commission, but I can  tell you that none of the companies have complied with this directive of the Federal Government.

    “People are complaining of uncompleted projects and projects not being sighted in their areas, it is obvious that any organization that is deprived of adequate funding is completely handicapped, the commission can only work within the limit of the resources within its disposal.”

    The group maintained that the NDDC main thrusts are being followed by the current administration to ensure no  area was neglected but  regretted that they cannot move as fast for obvious reasons.

    “The Act establishing the mission specifically state three main areas, infrastructural development, youth empowerment and other programmes that can bring about peace and development in the area, and the present management of the Commission is religiously  following this mandates.

    “The management has taken it upon itself to ensure that no project by the commission from inception was left uncompleted/abandoned while  initiating new one.

    “He has presently completed several of them; however funding challenge remains a problem and today, the Managing Director (M/D), Dan Abia embarks on projects inspection to ensure things are done well and the people of the  region get value for their resource.

    “2015 budget has not been passed into law and we are now in May, that of 2014 was not fully released, the commission is suffering and suffocating under lack of fund to carry out their projects and programmes; and we the youths of the region understand this plight so well and have severally appealed to the FG to adequately fund them for better results to no avail.

    “One may ask the concern of the youths in this allegation, we are the leaders of tomorrow and whatever that is being built today is for us, should we fold our arms and allow unscrupulous elements to run down our tomorrow today, through unfounded allegations and petitions then our tomorrow can no longer be guaranteed.

    “We therefore demand that chief Ngoye Iyalla retracts his allegations within14 days and render unreserved apologies to members of the Board of NDDC and if he refuses to comply, we the youths of the region will mobilise ourselves and seek redress in the court.”

    However, the Aggrieved Voice of Niger Delta accused Abia–led NDDC of squandering money meant for the award of water- hyacinth to Niger Delta communities, especially communities whose source of drinking water have been affected by oil spill pollution.

    The President of the group, Comrade Amatari Bipeledi, said Buhari must expose anything that could jeopardise his administration.

    He said the youth of Niger Delta were ready and willing to partner with the Buhari government and to give him a full support on any policies that could liberate the people of Niger Delta.

    He regretted that the Abia- led NDDC did not encourage the youths.

    ”We are calling on President Buhari to  immediately set a panel to  probe of the present NDDC board. The board led by Dan-Abia is supposed to protect the lives of those suffering in our riverine communities but they failed to do so.

    ”NDDC is expected to shortlist names of beneficiaries before giving award letters, but today NDDC gave award letters through the back door to their cronies, relatives, pseudo, and proxy companies without due process.

    ”We have many facts and evidence to present to President Buhari whenever he is ready to act on our fact. The purpose for the creation of NDDC has been seriously compromised.”