Going by the provision of sections 24 and 27 of the public procurement Act No 65 of 2007, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, representing Delta North senatorial district and chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs should have been arrested, charged and tried following the mammoth allegations of fraud, contract inflation violation of the public procurement Act, flagrant abuse of office and embezzlement of public funds to the tune of N3,483144,00 (Three billion, four hundred and eighty three million, one hundred and forty-four thousand naira meant for the procurement of plastic desks and chairs for primary and secondary schools in 9(Nine) oil producing states in Nigeria in the 2016 appropriation of the NDDC, TheConscienceNG reports.

The above monumental revelation was revealed against Senator Peter Nwaoboshi by Raymond Ebigoni Edgar. SA on Media to the Acting MD NDDC in a statement syndicated to this online newspaper on Friday, 7 August.

According to Edgar, “in all these allegations, it was learnt that the tenders Board of NDDC was never consulted before the award of the contracts to 15 different companies having links to senator Peter Nwaoboshi through proxies, friends and relations.”


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