Professor Itse Sagay, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the interim management committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Professor Sagay in an interview on Tuesday, Said he wants the presidency to purge out interim management and add fresh members into the board in view of the allegations of corruption glooming the commission.
This is coming after the 2019 budget defence of the NDDC by the agency’s Interim Management Committee (IMC) suffered a setback and mishandling.
“I will suggest that everybody there should be cleared out and the President should not appoint a new set of people very quickly under temporary conditions so that a permanent board and management can be established in the place that will then be monitored.
“My view is that everybody should be removed right now. Clear the place, sweep it clean. Start afresh with a new set of people,” he said.
Mr sagey described the allegations as mind-boggling and shocking, He recalled that when some appointments were made into the commission, he was against the character of two nominees in the commission.
He stated that the allegations has caused bad impressions on the Niger Delta region
Directing Members of the NDDC team comprising its acting Managing Director, Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei, Executive Director (Project), Dr Cairo Ojougboh, among appeared before the National Assembly in Abuja to defend the agency’s budget for the previous year.
But the defense floundered as the agency couldn’t account for some discrepancies in the budget.
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