It was reported on Monday, July 20, that while facing the investigative committee, probing the NDDC, the minister divulged that about 60 percent of all the contracts in the commission were awarded to members of the the National Assembly.
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Subsequently, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, ordered Akpabio to make a list of all the NASS members who are being awarded these contracts.
Akpabio, in a letter read on the floor of the House during Plenary by the Speaker on Thursday, July 23, said the only reference he made to 60 percent during his presentation before the NDDC committee on Monday was in response to a question by a member of the committee.
He said the member had sought to know whether a Medical Director can serve as an Executive Director Project, to which he responded by saying that since 50 to 60 percent of NDDC contracts were medical related, there was nothing wrong in a Medical Director serving in that capacity.
Akpabio also said that the Executive Director Project of the NDDC forwarded to him a list of 19 owed contracts which the Chairman of the House Committee on NDDC insisted must be paid before the 2020 budget of the commission is passed.
He added that the NDDC has not executed any contract under the 2020 budget since it has not been passed, while the 2019 budget was passed in April and has not been implemented.
The Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila however referred the letter to the House Committee on Ethics and Privileges.
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