GOVERNOR OKOROCHA ACCUSES NDDC OF FRAUDULENTLY SHORT-CHANGING IMO STATE

-ASKS THE NEW MD TO CORRECT ANORMALY

 

Governor Rochas Okorocha has accused the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC of fraudently short-changing Imo State and her people, adding that he was shocked to hear that billions of naira had been sent on the claimed 272 Projects in the state which are nowhere to be seen.

 

Governor Okorocha spoke when the new Managing Director of the Commission Mrs. Ibim Sememitari paid him courtesy call on Friday, February 26, 2016, in Owerri while on a two-day working visit to the state, with the Governor regretting that the NDDC that was established to serve member states was turned into ATM for some PDP parliamentarians and bigwigs from the state.

 

The Governor told the visiting MD, “I am shocked to hear that the NDDC has over 272 Projects in the state for which billions of naira were also said to have been spent on. I would like to have the list of the projects, the contractors handling them and where they are stited, because Imo people would also be shocked to hear this. Let us know the projects, their sites and the amounts paid on each of them.”

 

He continued, “the truth is that these projects could exist only on papers because the popular impression here is that the NDDC abandoned the state and her people, while releasing money meant for projects in the state to some PDP elements from the state in Abuja who shared the money with the contractors.”

 

His words “the NDDC isolated the state government. At times these wicked people behind all these fraud would ensure that both NDDC and Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs would award different contracts on one particular project and at the end of the day the job won’t be done. At times too, they would put NDDC sign board on state government project. So many funny things.”

 

He continued, “NDDC should not be partisan. People from the NDDC states should be provided with services required, despite their political affliations. Frankly speaking, the state has not benefited or felt the impacts of NDDC because no visible project has been put on ground for years. At a point, I thought about pulling the state out of the NDDC and demand that the money meant for the state should be remitted to her directly.”

 

The Governor noted, “the NDDC has remained a nightmare to Imo people. With the new MD, the state can now partner NDDC with the hope that things would begin to work out fine. And in the Commission’s budget, the management should look at the areas of power and rail lines linking the NDDC states. The Commission should not be constructing boreholes, renovation of schools and health centres. Let there be light at the NDDC now.”

 

He described the NDDC as an abode of corruption before now, and expressed the confidence that the new MD has all it takes to correct the plunders of the past administration, requesting that contract papers given to contractors should be copied to the government henceforth, to enable the government monitor the project effectively.

 

In her speech earlier, Mrs. Sememitari told Governor Okorocha that she was in the state to brief the governor on the activities of the Commission in the state, adding that Imo State is the first state she would be making such visit, and said the Commission has executed 272 projects in the state since inception going by the record available to her.

 

She said the Commission would partner the state government especially on the issue of identifying areas where the state is in dire need of certain projects to avoid duplications, commending the governor for his giant strides in the state.

 

Sam Onwuemeodo

Chief Press Secretary to the Governor.

Most of the NDDC projects are really existing on papers in most of the states because of person using it to ilegally enriching themselves.These thieves are existing in all the political parties

okey!

Officials of the Commission

MD NDDC and Governor Rochas Okorocha

Halo... Ibo fit sell i self to gulana chai

Okoroji.....yeye de smell oh

Listen to this scam talking... How many buckets of oil is Imo state producing?

dis man is a scam.he now hire crowd and persuade his workers ti go wit him whenever he s going to atend any function because no right thinking imolite will see him passing and hail him again.not in this life again

mercenary:
Listen to this scam talking... How many buckets of oil is Imo state producing?

stop reading Lagos-ibadan expressway news. If they stop drilling oil in Imo state,Angola will overtake us as the biggest producers. If they tap half of Imo's untapped fields,we are going to gap Angola by far.

Look who's talking

ok

Hypocrite. Kettle calling pot black. Fix your state first.

Nigeria has been corrupted before Nigerians, it blows in the air, it is sunk in our water, grows on our land. Only the grace of God can deliver us

Blame Game is in the Gene of APC. Its getting hereditary

This drama queen should shut the hell up! Who is more corrupt than him?
600m for a damn tree

ok

Roscam Okorocha should shut up. He has brought and sustained familiocracy in Imo State. 419 governor. Scammer in chief.

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Shaataap!! you are a fraudster and your party a scam.....

OK oo. We r also waitin 4 u 2 pay ur workers Okoroawusa. Ujoatu weldone. U r earning ur pay bt dis won't distract us. Tel ur master 2 pay imo workers

Rochas crying foul

Madam,please personally verify every single word this man tells you. He is a born master liar and fraud. If he tells you 'good morning',please crosscheck if its morning before answering him,he's that deceptive

272 NDDC projects without a single one to point to....GOD some nigerian politician are just so DUMB

zuchyblink:
stop reading Lagos-ibadan expressway news. If they stop drilling oil in Imo state, Angola will overtake us as the biggest producers. If they tap half of Imo's untapped fields,we are going to gap Angola by far.

Definitely. Their Deep offshore basins quite prolific. Luanda doing pretty well.

May the Almighty thunder of the Lord blast this useless okorocha,for enslaving we imolites....u hv refused to pay us,but our God has bn kippn us alive and going...U slapped ur wife bcuz shes askd u pay workers...rochas u ll die on sit,nw u condemning nddc over ongoing projects in the state dat u hv refused to do...SMH,rochas u ll die on sit

Na so

I wonder why this ujuatu will allways come online to say good things about rochas.
Everyone in Imo knows that Rochas is a cheap thief, misfit n a scam.
ujuatu tell NL why a sensible government will demolish a round about at control post he built for N700mil n start a new one of virgin mary statue.
Sack workers at will, after forcing them to sign an affidavit of thier own sack, undue retirement and acceptance of half salaries and non payment.
In imo since rochas came in, no local government is existing let alone councilors. Wht about the job job job n industry industry industry he promised. Its this same rochas that declared openly that over N6 billion imo bail out fund was stolen by his cook.
Tell ur paymaster that all those wealth he is worshipping are all vanity.
Rochas will never escape destruction as he is destroying imo.