‘N183b not missing from NDDC’

 

The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dan Abia on Wednesday denied the allegation that N183.7 billion was missing from the commission’s account.

The special periodic check report of the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation had claimed that N183.7 billion was mismanaged by the commission.

The Auditor-General of the Federation, Samuel

Ukura, had insisted that his office stand by the report and directed those not satisfied to prepare to defend their position before a special committee of the National Assembly.

But Abia in a chat with State House Correspondents after leading top officials of the commission to meet President Muhammadu Buhari, said the claim was not true.

According to him, he was not even the Managing Director of the Commission during the period the AGF mentioned in his report.

He said his hands are clean and will be ready to defend the allegation with the records available at the commission.