The Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr. Samuel Ukura, on Wednesday recommended the recovery of about N183bn being funds meant for the development of Niger Delta but which was allegedly diverted for other purposes.
Ukura stated this when he submitted three special audit reports to the clerk to the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa.
The Auditor-General explained that the amount was discovered in the periodic checks carried out by his office on the activities and programmes of the Niger Delta Development Commission between 2008 and 2012.
He said N70.4bn was paid as mobilisation to various contractors who never reported to site while N90.4 was the extra-budgetary expenditure for head and Sub-heads without approval by the legal authorities.
He also said N10bn was tax deductions without evidence of remittance to the Federal Inland Revenue Service; N5.8bn was payment to contractors for projects not executed, stalled or abandoned, while N1.2bn was undeducted taxes from contractors.
Ukura added that N3.1bn was transfer made to unauthorised accounts; N1.7bn was staff outstanding staff advances which were never accounted for and N785m out of N1.1bn meant for the supply of furniture to various schools in Delta State was diverted.
He explained that the funds for the furniture supply was certified paid whereas inspection carried out by the Auditor-General’s office revealed that no single chair was distributed during the period under review.
The Auditor-General noted that there would be the desired peace, progress and development required in the Niger Delta if all activities and programmes of the NDDC were well implemented.
Ukura, who also submitted two special audit reports on the environmental activities in the Lake Chad region, raised the alarm that the water was drying up and asked relevant government agencies to address it before the situation would degenerate.
He said, “The key message of the National Audit Report of Nigeria is that Lake Chad is drying up very fast from 250,000 square kilometers in 1960 to just 1,500 square kilometers at the moment. We must save Lake Chad from extinction.”
He said the submission of special audit reports is different from the submission of annual report of the Auditor-General for the Federation at the end of every financial year which had been submitted up to 2013 while that of 2014 was in progress.
He said the insurgency in the North-East and the militancy in Niger Delta would be curtailed effectively if necessary attention was drawn to the environmental challenges in Lake Chad and the Niger Delta.
http://www.punchng.com/news/auditor-general-seeks-recovery-of-n183bn-ndelta-funds/

OP there is a need be for you to add source to this post.

On topic.
Another reason to let them know that this present administration is working and i so much love the way people are willing to work with the present administration.

If it were before this would have been swept under the carpet but thank God that can never happen again, if it is swept under the carpet, the carpet will still be remove, if the matter is buried, it will be dug out of the ground.

Welcome to the new era...

Source is there, d last word.

wapSmart:
OP there is a need be for you to add source to this post.

On topic.
Another reason to let them know that this present administration is working and i so much love the way people are willing to work with the present administration.

If it were before this would have been swept under the carpet but thank God that can never happen again, if it is swept under the carpet, the carpet will still be remove, if the matter is buried, it will be dug out of the ground.

Welcome to the new era...

blackfase:
Source is there, d last word.

It had be better you provide a clickable link for the last word is punch which to many here is not a source.

http://www.punchng.com/news/auditor-general-seeks-recovery-of-n183bn-ndelta-funds/

Lalasticlala

Cheers!

wapSmart:
It had be better you provide a clickable link for the last word is punch which to many here is not a source.

http://www.punchng.com/news/auditor-general-seeks-recovery-of-n183bn-ndelta-funds/

Lalasticlala

Seems the goat nearly ate all the yams in our barn !

The Niger Delta people can now see how billions of naira meant for the development of the region were diverted by the management of the NDDC. The people who managed the NDDC are Niger Delta sons and daughters and they should be held accountable for the mismanagement of the resources meant for the development of the region.

"Niger Delta people this is 'witch hunting'; you must not allow this money to be recovered.
No money was looted which was meant for the development of Niger Delta. ND is the most developed region in Nigeria.
The Auditor General is APC and he is acting the Northerners' script by asking for the loot which was meant for the development of the South South." --- The Wailers.

"Oppression makes wise men becomes mentally unstable and behave like mad people; in fact too much suffering turns a good man into a fool" Ecclesiastes 7:7 (paraphrased mine).

The people of Niger Delta and south south provides more than 90% of Nigeria 'food' and yet suffers most starvation.
Few greedy ones among them diverted all the 'foods' that was meant for all of them.
Now, someone from the north is out to collect all the food from the few who impoverish them and make sure the food gets to the people for whom it was originally apportioned; Now they are shouting WITCH HUNTING. And calling their benefactor a 'dullard'. What an irony!!! a whole community of dullardinos.

Some people actually deserve to be living in a polluted environment and abject poverty, despite their 'oyel' rich land.

pedel:
"Niger Delta people this is 'witch hunting'; you must not allow this money to be recovered.
No money was looted which was meant for the development of Niger Delta. ND is the most developed region in Nigeria.
The Auditor General is APC and he is acting the Northerners' script by asking for the loot which was meant for the development of the South South." --- The Wailers.

"Oppression makes wise men becomes mentally unstable and behave like mad people; in fact too much suffering turns a good man into a fool" Ecclesiastes 7:7 (paraphrased mine).

The people of Niger Delta and south south provides more than 90% of Nigeria 'food' and yet suffers most starvation.
Few greedy ones among them diverted all the 'foods' that was meant for all of them.
Now, someone from the north is out to collect all the food from the few who impoverish them and make sure the food gets to the people for whom it was originally apportioned; Now they are shouting WITCH HUNTING. And calling their benefactor a 'dullard'. What an irony!!! a whole community of dullardinos.

Some people actually deserve to be living in a polluted environment and abject poverty, despite their 'oyel' rich land.

As the anti corruption war gathers momentum and revelations of massive corruption like the one revealed by the Auditor general above comes to public domain, the scales will gradually start falling from the eyes of the people defending their corrupt tribesmen.

interesting