N40bn palliative funds _You lied, I didn't request for NDDC projects, Akpabio replies Nwaoboshi.

Akpabio denied the allegations by Nwaoboshi, on claims that he wrote personal letters to him as Senate Minority Leader, requesting for Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, intervention projects in his senatorial district.

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The former Senate Minority Leader, through his Chief Press Secretary, Anietie Ekong who dismissed the allegations and explained, however that the said letters were addressed to the leadership of the Senate, contrary to Nwaoboshi’s claims.

It will be recalled that Nwaoboshi, had at a press briefing last week, presented some letters allegedly written to him by Akpabio that his projects should be included in the budget of the NDDC.

The senate is probing the N40billion palliative funds, allegedly squandered by the Interim Management Committee, IMC of NDDC, set up my Akpabio.

The IMC of the NDDC is overseeing the forensic audit of the NDDC, ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari.

It will also be recalled that Ibanga Etang, acting Executive Director, Finance and Administration of IMC, of the commission, died recently under questionable circumstances, few days to the probe of the N40billion expended by NDDC by the National Assembly, though it was claimed he died of COVID-19 virus.