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NDDC reveals when cause of Director, Ibanga Bassey’s death will be made public
May 30, 2020
The Niger-Delta Development Commission, NDDC has discarded reports that the Acting Executive Director, Finance, Ibanga Bassey Etang died of COVID-19.
There were speculations that Etang died of COVID-19 related issues following NDDC’s leaked memo NDDC/HQ/HAHR/3 directing staff and workers to self-isolate for two weeks.
But Charles Odili, Director of Corporate Affairs, NDDC, in a statement issued on Friday in Port Harcourt said the Late EDFA did not die of COVID-19 as suggested.
Recall that the Acting Executive Director died in a controversial circumstance as some have alleged he was poisoned.
Etang’s body had been taken to a section of the Braithwaite Memorial Hospital, Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital.
The director’s demise occurred amid probe of the NDDC by the Nigerian Senate.
The intervention agency is under investigation for alleged mismanagement of N40 billion.
The Red Chamber of the National Assembly had vowed to unearth the truth and expose the culprits.
But the report that he might have died of COVID-19 had since been dismissed by activists fighting for a clean probe of the activities of the agency. They had alleged that it would amount to cover-up if the claim that he died of COVID-19 is sustained.
But Odili in the statement circulated in the media stated that the decision of the Interim Management Committee of NDDC to direct staff to self-isolate does not presuppose that Ibanga Bassey died of Coronavirus.
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