NDDC: Recover Looted Funds, Prosecute Culprits, Buhari Told

Members of the Cross River State House of Assembly have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to recover all looted Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) funds and prosecute the looters.
Speaking with newsmen, yesterday, Speaker of the House, Dr Ekpo Ekpo Bassey lamented the high-profile corruption perpetuated by Nigerians mostly people of the Niger Delta region, and appealed to Buhari not to have mercy and sympathy on anyone.
Bassey, who represents the people of Bakassi in the Cross River State of House of Assembly, regretted that NDDC and leaders of Niger Delta regions have not been able to live up to expectation of the people as they allegedly connived with others to loot the treasury of the commission without executing various contracts awarded them.
“From the information we have gathered, NDDC has not been able to live up to its expectation in terms of proper management of its resources allocated to them and even Niger Delta leaders that should have protected the interest of Niger Deltans, many of them have gotten contracts from NDDC and have not executed any of these contracts,” he alleged.
“As I speak to you, the conditions of the people of the Niger Delta are appalling. There is a complete collapse of infrastructures. You can imagine the Calabar-Itu federal highway, everyday, commuters are subjected to unnecessary suffering and difficulty just because they have to travel along the road to make ends meet, yet Niger Delta leaders, some of them, have collected over 300 contracts and have been paid over N200million but have not been able to mobilize workers to sites,” he further alleged.
Lamenting further, the people of the region, according to Bassey, cried over injustice and abandonment in the region as “our leaders in the region have not done what they are supposed to have done.
“Our major problem is Calabar-Itu federal highway that connects Cross River and Akwa Ibom States as well as other states in Nigeria”.