The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila on Tuesday ordered the Minister of Niger Delta, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, to publish details of members of the House, who collected contracts at the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
The Minister was however given, 48 hours to publish names, contracts, dates and amount of contracts awarded to members of the 9th House of Representative.
The House, issued the order in reaction to Akpabio’s allegation before an investigative panel that lawmakers were the greatest beneficiaries from sleazy contract awards by the Commission.
The Speaker said, “This is my 5th term here and I have never for once collected anything from the National Assembly and I know I speak for a great majority of members of this House, a great majority. And because of that, I will take this allegation and accusation very seriously.
“And I will give the minister (Akpabio) 24 to 48 hours. Clerk, I want you to back this up with a letter from this House. Give the minister 24 to 48 hours to publish the names, the contracts so given, the dates because obviously these things will be documented; unveil the companies of the 60 per cent projects that were given to members of the National Assembly.”
Gbajabiamila’s ultimatum received applause from a large section of the lawmakers.
