“Sign of times. Even Akpabio saying others are “corrupt”
In an interview with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Godswill Akpabio, minister of Niger Delta Affairs, has said that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is infected with corrupt people.
Akpabio made this statement sequel to the President’s directive for a forensic audit to be carried out on the operations of the NDDC from 2001 to 2019.
According to him;
“We 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,” he said.
“We 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.
“There 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’t think they were looking at it as an interventionist agency.
“Even 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.
Akpabio further said that the President was right in his decision for calling for a forensic audit on the commission;
“We 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.”
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“I believe by now, people would have realised that the president is justified in calling for a forensic audit of the commission.
“I wonder why the leaders in the past didn’t 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.”
Read Nigerians Reaction Below;
Sadly, most men with mirrors in their houses do not use them anymore. It’s become more of an ornament than an accessory for self-reflection. 
Sign of times. Even akpabio saying others are “corrupt”
Chai! See pot calling kettle black.I don’t blame Akpabio but Buhari that claimed to be a clean man but who ended up appointing people like Apkabio into government.
Some further sarcastically called him a saint. They said;
Saint Akpabio
Saint Akpabio speaking from APC’s heaven….Mad fellas
See this one o.
Akpabio actually thinks he can talk about corruption with a straight face?
Anyway sha, Nigerians have very shallow memory so they will never remember his stint as the governor of Akwa Ibom.
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