NDDC budgets N1.3bn for fumigation

Written by Turaki A. Hassan Friday, 03 February 2012 05:02

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The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) budgeted a whopping sum of N1.3 billion on fumigation of its premises and another N2.2bn to organise seminars in the 2011 fiscal year, according to details of the commission’s budget approved by the National Assembly.


President Goodluck Jonathan presented the commission’s N250 billion budget for 2011 fiscal year to the legislature late in December, blaming the delay on leadership tussle in the NDDC.


The National Assembly speedily passed the budget after increasing it to N261 billion.

Details of the budget obtained by Daily Trust in Abuja showed that N1.3 billion was provided for the fumigation of offices in the commission’s headquarters in Port Harcourt and other offices elsewhere.

The NDDC headquarters is a nine-floor storey building, but Daily Trust could not confirm the number of offices in the structure.

Also, the budget provided N1.2 billion for “presidential project monitoring,” which an insider said is meant to be spent on hosting government officials who come visiting the NDDC offices and project sites.

The commission also got N1.8 billion to spend on traveling; N603 million for staff training; N550 million for international conferences; and N759 million for project consultancy.

Vehicle running cost got N794 million and N174 million was provided for vehicle maintenance.

Payment of insurance by the commission gulped N550 million; N550 million is for donations; N638 million for security; and N682 million for hotel bills.

Other expenditure are N308 million for publicity, N160 million for legal expenses, N44 million for entertainment and N394 million for community relations.

Telephone bills got N402 million, N70 million voted for project monitoring and N361 million for corporate affairs.

Also, N2.865 billion is set aside for the headquarters of the agency without specifying the expenditure items.

NDDC was set up in 2001 as an interventionist agency to help address the alleged underdeveloped of the oil rich Niger Delta region.

But it has not met up expectations of people in the region despite receiving hundreds of billions of naira annually.

The agency has also been dogged by in-fighting, boardroom squabble and unproven allegations of corruption.

NDDC was under the Presidency until the creation of the Ministry of Niger Delta in 2009, when the commission was transferred to the ministry.


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how much goes to developing the region?
this managing democracy, not practicing democracy

So bleeping sick and tired of this country!!!

1.3bn my a.s.s wtf is wrong with us? Bombling idiots 

Na wao, Is this how the money flows? Why am i still on my damn desk working for peanuts? Somebody should show me the way to these "money mines" and let me scoop my share. Meanwhile, on this matter, i'm available for hiring - let me just come and observe that's all.

Blood of God

Na their money - so let them spend as they please.

phock y ' all

Keep it up: The wrath of God is in the house of thieves

The corruption in this country are the civil servants and govt officers parading as saint.

Goodness!!!, waste and corruption runs in the blood. Niger Delta is still going to be crying till next millennium if we continue in this mess.

Gosh!

1.3 billion for fumigation? Abeg shey na Vampire dey inside d office dem?

Dont you know we have to fumigate against the spirt of righteousness.

@GeneralGej you must b one of those looting our resources abi?

E reach to ask o!

julioralph:

1.3 billion for fumigation? Abeg shey na Vampire dey inside d office dem?

julioralph:

1.3 billion for fumigation? Abeg shey na Vampire dey inside d office dem?

GeneralGEJ:

Dont you know we have to fumigate against the spirt of righteousness.

but thats how bad it is. 9ja 9ja

nigeria na mad country ooo, imagine if the chairman of nddc jus thief 10 billion naira for himself,no be hammar be that?, and can y'all believe that i know this chairman of nddc 1 on 1?, my own i go jus go meet am to nak me 1 job space, becos this country na on God go fit end this madness, 250billion naira??, thats jus goin to incite much embezzlement

Something has to give in this country.  Something just has to give.  Things have spiralled out of control.

*crying for my country*

The same way their own leaders rip them off, remember Alamiyseigha. Last the Traditional ruler from the region stated that the Ministry of Niger Delta claiming that 57billion allocated in the 2012 budget is paltry. When the N.D.D.C spends 1.2 billion on fumigation haba just to kill rats , cockroaches and mosquitoes. Oti po ju

julioralph:

1.3 billion for fumigation? Abeg shey na Vampire dey inside d office dem?

, u r so funny, na witches and wizards dey the place o,

Who can we now entrust money to in this country?

The Federal Government has failed us.

The state governments have disappointed us.

The Local Government Areas are a cesspool of corruption.

The Agencies and parastatals are waste pipes.

The elected officials are rotten.  The appointed ones are not better.  The Civil Service stinks.

Yet, we must entrust funds to some sort of government, agency or parastatals.

Has this problem not gone beyond what 'true federalism' or another style of government can solve?

And this is why I think that something just has to give. It has to.

It just has to.

I just laugh at these type of news these days. Vehicle running cost N794m, vehicle maintenance cost N174m. Lol.!

This is absolutely preposterous. My heart is bleeding for this country. How painful.

naija is cursed with the spirit of CORRUPTION!

Una want make rats and cocroaches chop their files?!

I support.

CuteTj:

naija is cursed with the spirit of CORRUPTION!

It is too much corruption that makes a country fail. This is because the great part of the resources end up in private pockets at the expense of development of infrastructure - roads, health, education, security, water, power, etc.

What is the result when these infrastructure areas becomes totally neglected? A failed state!

See heart patients

you people will kill yourselves over Nigeria - and nothing will change.


In Nigeria we love corruption - THat how things work . Over Invoicing is the way governments gets money to the masses.

Can anybody relate this with parasitism, resource control, fed allocation, or even ND millitancy struggle and its justification.

Beaf and co. where art thou?

de annoying thing is dis guys will only get bigger pot bellies, grow darker. . .o God, abeg help Niga, abeg, mopol co kil if pple try revolt, Baba God help

Corruption and embezzlement is now endemic and genetic in this country. I keep saying it, i don't see any light at the end of this tunnel called Nigeria, only radical/violent revolution will overhaul this country for good. All this Badluck Jonathan's propaganda is just a different track of the same album still playing.

No mind them o jare. Ogas go chop from the contract and some militants