Nigerian Senate Chief Whip and former governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, on Monday reacted to the inclusion of his name by Niger Delta Development Commission as a contract beneficiary.

Kalu in his defense said NDDC has not paid the contractors who constructed the roads he facilitated.

The embattled senator was reacting to The PUNCH report from a document, which the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, attached to the letter he submitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on July 23.

Recall that NDDC few days ago released a list of those that were awarded contracts by the commission, some names of past governors and security chiefs were contained in the list. Read here

Akpabio, in the document, which was published in The Punch on Monday, August 3, had linked ex-governors Emmanuel Uduaghan, James Ibori, Senator Ifeanyi Ararume, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and others to the several contracts allotted by the NDDC.

However, Kalu in a statement signed by Barrister Emeka Nwala of office of the Senate Chief Whip and made available to our correspondent on Monday, said he believed that the issues at stake in the NDDC had to do with missing funds and not works done.

He added that he was becoming worried over his name being used indiscriminately to sell newspapers without verifications.

The Chief Whip said the road projects mentioned by the Honourable Minister are the interventions he facilitated for the communities as a private citizen before he became a Senator.

Kalu revealed that his name was mentioned because.....................https://janefblog.com/14614-2stop-using-my-name-indiscriminately-to-sell-newspapers-kalu-blast-nddc/

Hnnm
Did he give himself the contract?

Your name is salable in the bad market