Group Alleged More Looting By NDDC, NEDC, Others Within Few Days

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A transparency group, the League of Nigerian Democrats has called on the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission, the North East Development Commission, and others to immediately obey President Bola Tinubu’s directive on board dissolution and stop claiming exemption.

The group urged President Tinubu and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, George Akume, CON, to ensure they immediately hand over to the most qualified civil servant in their respective offices, in line with their hierarchy of seniority.

In a statement signed by the group’s National Coordinator, Yomi Adelakun, on Tuesday alleged that the dissolved Chief Executive Officers in agencies and MDAs such as the NDDC, and NEDC, are reluctant to obey the presidential directive, accusing them of embarking on over N200 billion looting spree in the last three days.

The statement reads “The dissolved board members and chief executive officers were all appointed and screened by the National Assembly as members of the same board and on the same platform reconstituting the governing board in their respective agencies, therefore the President’s directive is referring to the Most Qualified Civil Servant Director who automatically becomes the Chief Executive Officer that will refer matters requiring the attention of their Boards to the President, through the Permanent Secretaries of their respective supervisory ministries and offices.”

In an earlier statement, Adelakun and the LND had alleged that despite last week’s directive of President Tinubu, there has been a clandestine looting spree and illegal payment of fraudulent contracts by some Ministries, Intervention Agencies and Parastatals and the country may have lost over N200 billion in the last few days.

He claimed that some of the illegal payments and withdrawals were done over the weekend with the connivance of some senior bank officials.