Full List: NDDC names 23 companies used by NASS to get N9 Trillion contracts

NDDC has identified 23 companies used by NASS to receive N9 Trillion contracts.

OnyxNews Nigeria understands that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in a new document showed the names of 23 companies reportedly provided by the National Assembly to the NDDC to award contracts before the lawmakers.

The contracts which were awarded and paid between March 17 and 26, 2020, showed that the 23 companies got a total of N9 trillion contracts from the NDDC with the highest getting to one Grandfox Global Services Ltd.

In a document seen by SaharaReporters, Grandfox Global Services Ltd was awarded the contract titled ‘Emergency at Ope Road Okigwe LGA’ and was paid 580,438,578, on March 17, 2020.

Lawmakers who got NDDC contracts

Also awarded contracts were Crism Constr. Building Ltd; Aritel Oil and Gas; and PDH Global Logistics Ltd, who got contracts of N561,592,377; N550,100,132; and N543,247,587 respectively. Listed among the companies was also Webster Global Ventures Ltd, who allegedly got four contracts from the commission.

The NDDC contracts according to the document, include instruction of emergency repairs of failed and unmotorable sections of Benin Township Road Lot 2 Oredo LGA for N357m; remedial works of failed and unmotorable sections of Akuku Illah Road Oshimili North LGA for N463m; remedial works of failed and unmotorable sections of New Ogorode Road Lot2 Sapele LGA for N466m and instruction for emergency repairs of failed and unmotorable sections of Abigborodo Road Lots 2 Warri North LGA for N466m.

NDDC identifies 23 companies used by NASS to get N9 Trillion contracts (Full list)

In the mean time, Webster Global Ventures Limited has dismissed the claims made by the Interim Management Committee of the NDDC, describing its inclusion on the list of companies allegedly coerced to be paid by the National Assembly as a deliberate effort to destroy the company’s reputation.

The company described the statement credited to the Acting Managing Director of the NDDC, Prof Kemebradikumo Daniel Pondei, as untrue, inaccurate and misleading, adding that the National Assembly never influenced any payment made to it by the NDDC.

In a statement on Saturday, Opeolu Adarae, the Director of Operations of the company, said: “We are a company of international repute and no one should dent our image.

“The National Assembly never influenced payment made to our company because we completed all projects we handled. We have been in operations for more than 20 years and we have never been linked to any form of fraud as a corporate company.

“Nobody gave us any recommendation and we do not have any business with the National Assembly. As a matter of fact, the Executive Director, Project for the NDDC, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, inspected our project and certified it satisfactorily completed before payment was made.”

Similarly, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the Chairman of the House Committee on NDDC, denied the claims by the NDDC, saying the commission had been engaging in extra-budgetary expenses, adding that the agency had not been transparent with its budgetary spending.

The Chairman of the House Committee on NDDC said: “All these things are just falsehood. The commission said they are old jobs and said the National Assembly asked them to pay for the old jobs.

“We did not get the job and we are only doing our jobs.

“As the legislature, we are supposed to be the one checking the excesses of the executive but they are trying to blackmail us.

“With what they are trying to do now, they are trying to blackmail us so they will have a free hand to do what they want to do.”