Thursday 13 August 2015

N183bn NDDC funds diverted, says Auditor General

The Auditor General of the Federation, Mr. Samuel Ukura, says N183bn meant for the development of the Niger Delta was diverted.

He, therefore, recommended that the money should be recovered.

Ukura stated this when he submitted three special audit reports to the Clerk to the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa.

The Auditor General explained that the amount was discovered in the periodic checks carried out by his office on the activities and programmes of the Niger Delta Development Commission between 2008 and 2012.

He said N70.4bn was paid as mobilisation to various contractors who never reported to site while N90.4bn was the extra-budgetary expenditure “for Head and Sub-heads without approval by the legal authorities.”

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