densiks: Unsubstantiated claims from a woman that was sacked for corruption.
She has been shown damning evidences of her unscrupulous activities during her short stint at the commission and Akpabio has refused to make any commitment to defend or support her ordeal hence the wild and beer parlor allegations.what part does oath taking play in the process of public procurement or the nddc act? Are such claims tenable in any court?
She should be taken in for psychiatric examination before her next public trial.
Former Acting Managing Director of Interim Management Committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Joy Nunieh has revealed how she was pressured to take oat of secrecy.
The former Acting MD made who this known when she appeared before Senate adhoc Committee investigating NDDC said she would have been jailed if she had succumbed to Akpabio’s ‘oath of secrecy’
Nunieh accused the minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio of pressuring her to take the oath of loyalty, but she resisted She explained that, the oath would have held her spell bound to be used to siphon the NDDC funds without being able to resist as a result of the oath placed on her.
Nunieh explained that Akpabio pressured her three times to place her under oath to the extent that they took the matter to the Villa, as she vehemently resisted.
She feared that she would go to five years imprisonment if under Godswill Akpabio’s oath she commits infraction on the Public Procurement Act and wasn’t able to speak out, while he will be going about a free man.
Nunieh said: “He told me to take an oath. Though he denied that, he told me, three times until we had a reconciliation at the Villa in the office of Mr Abba who is the S.A. to the President on domestics.
“In that meeting was Alhaji Maikano and he said the only condition is when I take the oath and I didn’t take the oath and will never take it.
“After that, he said, he was going to remove me and he started the campaign of calumny against me. I didn’t even answer him because the fact will speak for itself.”
On the procurement process, Nunieh said,“I refuse to go with him to the FEC meeting to deceive Mr. President and the reason is because the law says if I contravene a section of the procurement Act, it’s five years imprisonment without an option of fine.
“So if I had gone with him to deceive Mr. President I would have been in trouble because they said it’s 2020 budget, but Akpabio went and got approval when the budget was not ready.”
Nunieh further explained her position on the controversial contracts in the NDDC denying that she never made any payment without Akpabio’s knowledge.
“One of the issues raised against me was that I awarded contracts without them knowing about it. Am sure that is what they told you people yesterday.
“Apparently, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh never sit in the office, so he never know the workings and the bureaucracy of payments in the office.
“One, I am just a viewer of a platform that made payments in NDDC. There are different steps to take before payments are made in NDDC. One there is the issue of lassa fever which obviously they didn’t carry that one along.
“Nobody make payments in NDDC without Godswill Akpabio’s consent. When we first came to NDDC on the day of inauguration we were going to the camp, he told me Madam MD, if you don’t do what I said, the same pen I used in signing your letter; that is the same pen I will use in removing you.
Narrating further, Nunieh said: “He said the first thing I should do, when I get to Port Harcourt, is to change dollars in NDDC account into Naira. I told him, I am scared to do that. He claimed that I have poverty mentality that I was afraid of money. All of you knew he accused me on that, saying I am afraid to spend money.
“After two days, he came to Port Harcourt and told that what I should do is to change dollars and I said I cannot just do that. He said I remove Mr. Katulgo from legal and send me on compulsory retirement and he said we cannot have a northerner as head of the legal unit.
“I said, I cannot do that. I do not have the powers because I am just an IMC. It’s a criminal offence, and against public service rules for me to do that. He said I should repost all other directors that refused to take his instruction during my predecessor’s time, that is the person who was there before I came.
According to Nunieh, Akpabio wanted Senator Peter Nwaoboshi who is the Chairman of Senate Committee on NDDC and that of his House counterpart, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo implicated for their resistance to the idea of Interim Management Committee at that time.
“So, he came and ask me to draft a letter on my letterhead implicating Senator Peter Nwaoboshi for collecting contracts in NDDC. I told him that I will not do that I am a lawyer and who alledges should prove. He said Senator Nwaoboshi is giving us trouble and beside, he didn’t recognize the IMC. I said I will not do that letter. He said I was ungrateful and I refuse to do that letter.
“Dr. Cairo now said he will do the letter. He said if Akpabio asked him to kill, he will kill before he ask why did he kill and I said, for me, I will not do that. At that place, there was one Mr. Etiebet who was the only NDDC staff that was present at that meeting. He now asked Dr. Cairo to go and sent for letter headed from the office. They now went and send for the letter headed. Dr, Cairo now did a letter which I want to tender at the Ad-hoc Committee before I came late alleging that Senator Nwaoboshi had contracts and I said if I signed, any document from me seen by Mr. President, he will believe. So I will only write that EDP who should know about it.
“The next thing he told me is that I should make sure these people, leaves the procurement because apparently Akpabio before I came when himself and Festus Keyamo became Ministers, in their first meeting, they awarded 30 contracts of water hyacinths.
“Mr. Linus who was Director Finance refused to sign because it didn’t follow due process. He also said, I should implicate the Chairman, House Committee on NDDC because the Chairman of House Committee has gone to Ondo State to hold a meeting to plan against him. I said, I don’t know that one, I have never seen him. But for Senator Nwaoboshi, he was my classmate at the Law school and we were called to bar the same day, however, I didn’t see him since we were called to bar, I didn’t really remember him and that was about thirty years ago.
“When we finished that, Akpabio said I should bring all things and start pay, I said, I cannot pay for water hyacinths because the budget for water hyacinths was about 3 to 5 billion I cannot remember exactly the figure now.
“The NDDC before I came has overstretched for about 50 billion for hyacinths and so the National Assembly has written us that we should not pay for anything like that. Guess what, Akpabio never signed any documents. He will always refuse to sign, but tell you to go and commit fraud.
“For instance, he told me to go and raise a memo for an emergency contract for flood victims. You people remember that there was flood which we went to Channels AIT and all that.”
The investigation has been concluded with expectation that the report would be submitted to the Senate in two weeks time.
These are all sentimental submission, full of intent to blackmail and draw pity. He want you to lie against this, against that and every other person. Yet no documentary evidence or video.
densiks: Unsubstantiated claims from a woman that was sacked for corruption.
She has been shown damning evidences of her unscrupulous activities during her short stint at the commission and Akpabio has refused to make any commitment to defend or support her ordeal hence the wild and beer parlor allegations.what part does oath taking play in the process of public procurement or the nddc act? Are such claims tenable in any court?
She should be taken in for psychiatric examination before her next public trial.
I am hoping this country will one day have an Ogoni President. I am in awe of that tribe. They have loads of integrity and are STUBBORN in the extreme.
staymore: I am afraid they will come after Joy Nunieh with everything at their disposal. They day Akpabio left Emmanuel Udom alone was when the gov. Could breath well.
Nothing like left alone... Udom battled him fearlessly to retain his mandate.
Carlyboi: Akpabio that Muthafucka no dey Shame this mundane and ephemeral life don’t know what they need all that money for!until we get serious like China and start executing all this crooks and eternal and demonic looters this country will keep going in circles!or at the least start cutting of their limbs like some Arab countries with long jail term plea shit bargaining or not those lowlifers and piece of shits will keep taking us for a ride.
Covid 19 is doing is job jejely, these people are sadistic lunatic I swear,calling billions like thousands, some people are extremely wicked.
I laughed when South South people said their money was used to develop Lagos n Abuja and Portharcourt (Niger delta best city) looks like a big village. Their politicians are their problem. 13% return on crude is always looted by incumbent governors and their gangsters run NDDC, so no development in sight.
On Akpabio's oath of secrecy, I believed 100%. Instance, if you don't join "Ogboni" in rivers state, you can't get govt contract or appointment under Wike! It's that bad in Portharcourt where I'm resident.
Not that I believe many of these allegations by her though.
Sure, she will definitely add salt and sugar to get back at them. But the bottom line is that an allegation has been made about Akpabio and a weighty one as that.
It must be on your CV that you'll abide on any kind of oaths before they'll have anything to do with you. These men are known occult people. Especially Orji Uzor Kalu... He is devil incarnate. He subjected everybody that worked under him to terrible oaths, that is why he was able to loot Abia state dry.
Fear this politicians.
I'm coming for them I am joining politics by fire by force. I ready for there jazzz. Abia and the entire Eastern states must be emancipated from this wicked men.
Youths must fight for their future. cuz we'll eventually die if we no fight
