The Senate, on Thursday, said it has uncovered how the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) shared the sum of N1.5 billion among staff and the Nigerian Police Force as COVID-19 relief package. The National Assembly is currently probing allegation of misappropriation of N40 billion by the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the commission.

The Chairman of the Senate Ad hoc Committee on Investigation of the alleged Financial Recklessness in the NDDC, Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi, gave the details of how the money was spent at the ongoing investigative public hearing in Abuja. He said the sum of N10 million was given to one staff, N7 million each to two staff and N5 million each to three staff.

He said N3 million each was given to 148 staff, N1.5 million each to 175 staff, N1 million each to 495 staff, N600,000 each to 464 staff and N475 million to the Nigerian Police to buy face mask and hand sanitizers. In his response, the commission’s Acting Managing Director, Kemebradikumo Pondei, said the money were given to the staff as COVID-19 relief fund to ease the effect of the pandemic on them.


“We have to take care of the staff, who are also the representatives of the people from the nine states of the Niger Delta region,” he said. On the N475 million given to the police to buy face mask and hand sanitizers, he said the Commission received the request from the police high command and the management approved it. “We work very closely with the police. Without them, we can’t work.

“A request from the Police high command was made to us and the management looked at it and approved. “We gave the money to Police high command and they have not given us the record of how the money was spent,” he said.

Read more: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/covid-19-how-police-nddc-staff-shared-n1-5bn-senate.html

...and the looting by lootocrats continues. For Lawal and his ponzi committee to be active and crying foul on this particular case, it's obvious that they were shortchanged by Akapbio and his looting gangs in NDDC from usual 10% cut from the loot

What matters is if Tunde got his cut.

If he did, case closed

The Coronavirus SCAMDEMIC continues

They will use this Coronavirus to loot this country to death till thy kingdom come. They will be praying no cure is found till 2023. Mr Integrity my left yansh. Later some people will be calling him their darling daddy. Daddy indeed, Daddy of Kwaruption... (◔‿◔)

It has become clear why Akpabio wanted interim management committee.
Giving staff millions as individual palliative but I did not see truck load of food stuff to the Niger delta the real owners of the funds.

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How many test centers does the SS have?

We have a deep rooted corruption problem in this country...

This country needs to be disbanded and renamed.

Corruption fight seems to be a lost cause in Nigeria.

Like someone said "majority of Nigerians do not hate corruption but hated not being beneficiary of corrupt practices"

If the head EFCC who ought to be above board is charged with corruption what's our fate as country on this hydrahead monster that has eaten deep into the fabric of the nation?


Whilst majority of Nigerians are languishing in poverty and Govt inability to provide palliatives some staff of NDDC shared over a billion amongst themselves and the police?

Men....I seriously doubt if this country is redeemable...SMH

.Corruption in almost every sector of Nigeria's economy.
Nigeria and Corruption is like 5&6

N1.5bn just like that...

Coupled with the police brutality?