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Alleged N480bn Fraud False, Baseless – Minister

by Osa Okhomina,
3 years ago
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The minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Umana Okon Umana, has dismissed as “false and totally baseless”, series of allegations of N480 billion fraud made against him by those he described as professional petition writers, declaring that there is no iota of truth in claim and no fraud has been committed under his watch in the ministry.

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According to Mr Umana, despite futile efforts by the petitioners and their hired hands to malign his person, the monies associated with projects alleged to have been embezzled have neither been released nor expended on the projects cited in the petition.

In a statement issued in response to the petition purportedly tendered before the National Assembly, he explained that in line with his directive at the last meeting of the national council, adjustments had been made in the 2022 budget proposals of the NDDC to accommodate core regional infrastructure projects based on a new template for the development of the Niger Delta region.

He said; “It is senseless for the petitioners to allege that the compilation of projects to include in the budget proposals of the NDDC for 2022 for transmission to the National Assembly is a crime. Everything is at the proposal stage; no contracts have been awarded and no money has been disbursed or expended.”

He noted that anything to the contrary is false and should be dismissed in its entirety. He equally refuted another allegation in the petition that he sacked 700 workers in the commission on assumption of duty as minister.

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Umana said he had neither sacked nor approved the sack of 700 workers of the commission, recalling that on assumption of duty, he was briefed by both the ministry and the NDDC, whose interim administrator at the time complained of a bloated staff strength which made him (the minister) to ask what the interim administrator had done about it.

The minister stated that after the inaugural briefing, the interim administrator of the NDDC never came back to him on any action he had taken or planned to take on the issue and that whatever he did about “the bloated staff strength” he had complained of had no ministerial approval.

“The allegation of non-performance peddled in the same petition is also baseless. The minister of Niger Delta Affairs reports to the president, and not to hired petition writers. It is the president that assesses the performance of his ministers,” he stated.


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