The House of Representatives Committee on abandoned Projects awarded by the Niger-Delta Development Commission, NDDC has directed the commission to recover over sixty billion naira and other funds disbursed for contracts.
The directive was issued by the committee’s chairman Ossai Nicholas Ossai at the resumed hearing of the committee who was responding to submissions by the NDDC management team led by its Acting Managing Director Akwaga Enyia who appeared before the committee to give details of contracts awarded by the commission.
The committee urged the NDDC to recover about sixty one billion naira from contractors who abandoned sites and another five point eight billion naira alleged excess payment to others as discovered in a preliminary report of the investigation by the committee.
According to the committee chairman, over six hundred contractors were suspiciously awarded contracts by the NDDC across the states of jurisdiction.
