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BOOM! Refund N2bn You Collected To Supply Plastic Chairs NDDC Tells Senate Committee Chairman, Nwaoboshi
Aug 7, 2020
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has asked the chairman of the Senate Committee on NDDC Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, to refund a sum of N2.5 billion.
According to the commission, the sum was given to the senator for the supply of plastic desks and chairs for primary and secondary schools in the region.
In a letter addressed to Nwaoboshi, Peter Claver Okoro, NDDC director of legal services, said the contract was fully paid for but the commission did not receive the items.
Okoro said instead, the desks and chairs were taken to a warehouse along Benin expressway.
The letter reads, "I have been directed to write to you and to state as follows; 
"That sometime in 2017, the Commission awarded contracts to certain companies for the production of desks and chairs for primary and secondary schools in the Niger Delta region under the 201 6 budget of the Commission. The list of the companies is attached as Annexure ‘A’. 
"The total value of the said contracts was ₦2.552.305,600.OO (Two Billion. Five Hundred and Fifty-Two Million. Three Hundred and Five Thousand And Six Hundred Naira).
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