Akpabio submits final forensic audit report to President Buhari
*Akpabio and Buhari
Etim Ekpimah
President Muhamamadu Buhari has received the final report of the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) from Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Godswill Akpabio.
The documents conveyed in sacks were received by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who represented the President.
In his remarks shortly before handing over the report, Akpabio, disclosed that the forensic audit covered a total of 13,777 contracts awarded from 2001 to 2019 at a final contract value of N3, 274,206,032,213.24.
Akpabio had on June 23, 2021 at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, assured that the final audit report would be submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari for implementation.
On August 11, 2021, the minister received the report from the field auditors who scrutinised over 12,000 projects handled in nine states of the Niger Delta region by the NDDC between 2001 and 2019.
The audit activities commenced in March 2020 after President Buhari ordered a forensic audit of the operations of the interventionist agency The president gave the order in reaction to persistent criticisms of the organisation’s operations from 2001 to 2019.
