The report reveals how 13,777 contracts awarded were abandoned despite the six trillion naira the commission received in budgetary allocations.
The senator in charge of the district has assured residents that they will be connected to the national grid by Easter 2022.
The governor says the special fund will bring succour to the people of the zone who were devastated during the war.
Governor Nyesom Wike has threatened to bar Godswill Akpabio, the minister of Niger Delta Affairs, from using a road Rivers government is constructing.
The Presidency has reeled out a laundry of milestone achievements of President Muhammadu since he assumed office in 2015.
“Why should Malami receive a report of a committee he did not constitute? Malami and Akpabio are both ministers under Buhari.”
Niger Delta affairs minister Godswill Akpabio disclosed that the audit found 13,000 abandoned projects in the region.
“70 per cent of people in the region live below the poverty line despite contributing 90 per cent to Nigeria’s earnings.”
“Honourable minister, it’s okay, off your mic, off your mic!” The chairman of the probe committee had beckoned on Mr Akpabio as the latter sought to open a can of worms.
Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, says the final report of the forensic audit of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) will be ready in July.
