Daniel Pondei, who is the Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), blamed the Senate and House of Representative Ad-hoc Committees of conniving to scuttle the forensic audit of the Commission by disputing it in its final report.
Pondei, said “it is surprising and disappointing that the Senate Committee can be attributed with unproven allegations as their final report.” Responding to a newspaper story attributed to the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee that he and members of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) hoarding 30% of over-all contract amount from contractors ahead of paying them.
The NDDC boss yet said that he is not preoccupied by bogus accusations executed by those bent on spoiling the current forensic audit of the Commission.
He rejected the claims as baseless and arranged plot by those stated in the contract corruption to get back at him for challenging to name and embarrass them for holding the Commission and the region hostage for years.
Conferring to him, the blockade on the NDDC broken with the calling of those at the back of the financial malfeasance and contract racketeering.
Pondei in a statement endorsed by his Special Adviser on Media, Edgar Ebigoni, declined that no member of the IMC or himself ever requested for or collected bribe or any other form of stimulus for carrying out their duties.
He however said the Committee is not worried by “spurious claims and accusations regarding its work”.
