Senate bans NDDC’s interim board from defending agency’s 2020 budget

President of the senate, Ahmad Lawan, has barred the interim management of the Niger Development Development Commission (NDDC) from defending the agency’s 2020 budget

Lawan, while referring president Muhammadu Buhari’s request to the senate committee on NDDC, directed the panel to deal strictly with members the governing board of the agency recently screened and approved by the senate.

The senate had earlier faulted the rationale behind the submission of the 2020 budget of the NDDC while members of the governing board of the agency already cleared by the have not assumed duty.

It could be recalled that the minister of Niger Delta affairs, Godswill Akpabio, had appointed an interim management committee to oversee the agency, the clearance of nominated board members notwithstanding.

Senate had described the interim management as an anomaly when an approved body is not allowed to assume duties as board members.