{"id":732788,"date":"2019-10-28T14:46:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T14:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/28\/how-some-corrupt-people-turned-nddc-into-atm-akpabio\/"},"modified":"2019-10-28T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T14:46:03","slug":"how-some-corrupt-people-turned-nddc-into-atm-akpabio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/28\/how-some-corrupt-people-turned-nddc-into-atm-akpabio\/","title":{"rendered":"How Some Corrupt People Turned NDDC Into ATM: Akpabio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"amp-ad-wrapper amp_ad_2\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_623842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-623842\" style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-623842\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/why-akpabio-is-threatening-to-dump-pdp-source.jpg\" alt=\"Akpabio\" width=\"439\" height=\"336\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-623842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Godswill Akpabio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Godswill Akpabio, minister of Niger Delta Affairs, has said that some corrupt people treated the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) like an automated teller machine (ATM).<\/p>\n<p>The minister said this during an interview with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA).<\/p>\n<p>This is coming after President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a forensic audit of the operations of the NDDC from 2001 to 2019 over several criticisms that have accompanied the running of the commission.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Akpabio said, \u201cWe have also had a lot of political interference, people have not allowed NDDC to work as it ought to, people coming with ideas not to move the region forward but to move their pockets forward. It has always been so,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe currently have about 12,000 abandoned projects across the nine states of the Niger Delta. If those things were completed, you can imagine that the area would have been turned into an Eldorado.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no way NDDC road can last (for) even two years. I think people were treating the place as an ATM, where you just walk in there to go and pluck money and go away, I don\u2019t think they were looking at it as an interventionist agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven the idea of giving out a job to somebody who does not have the requisite skills is corruption on its own. The idea of bloating the contract is also corruption. Even collecting money and abandoning the site is also corruption.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Keyamo To Undergo Looting Internship Under Akpabio In Niger Delta Ministry: Omokri<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have also had a lot of political interference, people have not allowed NDDC to work as it ought to, people coming with ideas not to move the region forward but to move their pockets forward. It has always been so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On how he felt about the president\u2019s order for an audit, Akpabio said: \u201cI believe by now, people would have realised that the president is justified in calling for a forensic audit of the commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wonder why the leaders in the past didn\u2019t find it necessary to look into the activities of the NDDC, with a view to repositioning it. There is nobody that will be happy to see this kind of situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Godswill Akpabio Godswill Akpabio, minister of Niger Delta Affairs, has said that some corrupt people treated the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) like an automated teller machine (ATM). The minister said this during an interview with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA). 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