A civil society organisation, Act for Positive Transformation Initiative (APTI), has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to return all monies it collected from oil producing companies in the Niger Delta on behalf of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) from 2020.
The group stated this at a media briefing Wednesday in Abuja. While giving the EFCC seven days, or face legal action, it wants all recoveries by the agency returned to the NDDC within the specified ultimatum, and to also forthwith, and stop the collections.
Director in charge of Research, Strategy and Programming of APTI, Mr Kolawole Johnson, during the briefing recalled how his organizsation in collaboration with other NGOs carried out extensive research and investigation of the rot in the NDDC under previous managements which ran without a legitimate board in place.
“Against the backdrop of the enabling law regulating the administration of the Niger Delta Development Commission’s funds and assets, the federal government through the EFCC has since 2020 engaged in financial illegalities that are daily shortchanging the commission and the people of the Niger Delta region.”
