The former acting Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, Joy Nunieh, on Friday, testified before the House of Representatives Committee on NDDC at the ongoing investigative hearing on the alleged mismanagement of funds by the commission.
Nunieh, who joined the hearing and gave her testimony via Zoom, defended herself against allegations of corruption, arguing that there was no contractor that paid bribes.
This newspaper report that Nunieh was expected to appear before the committee on Thursday before police operatives laid siege at her residence in Port Harcourt.
The former NDDC boss was, however, rescued by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and taken to the Government House.
The former NDDC managing director had accused Akpabio of fraud, embezzlement, and sexual harassment.
“Nobody makes any payment in NDDC without Godswill Akpabio…. When we first came to the NDDC, on the day of going for the inauguration, he told me in the car that ‘Madam MD, If you don’t do what I say, the same pen which I use to sign your letter, it will be the same pen I will use to remove you,” she had said after appearing before a Senate panel.
“He said the first thing I should do when I get to Port-Harcourt is to change the dollars in the NDDC account. I was scared to do that.”
But Akpabio and vowed to sue the former NDDC boss and denied knowledge of what was going on in the commission under Nunieh because he could not reach her.
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If it were in the United kingdom or The United states of America, Akpabio would either have resigned or stepped aside to give room for a free invitation not to doctor the investigation himself.
Interested in this matter but madam always said the true, and true will set u free God bless Nigeria