{"id":15797,"date":"2020-05-27T08:43:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T08:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=15797"},"modified":"2020-05-27T08:43:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T08:43:40","slug":"reps-committee-chairman-alleges-threats-to-his-life-over-nddc-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=15797","title":{"rendered":"Reps committee chairman alleges threats to his life over NDDC probe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Olubunmi-Tunji-Ojo.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has alleged threats to his life by some militants over the proposed probe of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/nddc-staff-gets-7-years-imprisonment-over-n4m-contract-fraud\/\">NDDC<\/a>&nbsp;for alleged financial improprieties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tunji-Ojo, who addressed journalists at a press conference at the National Assembly complex, Abuja, said he had received some life-threatening phone calls and messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NDDC Executive Director, Projects, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, had in chat with journalists recently accused the Tunji-Ojo and other members of the National Assembly of insincerity and financial impropriety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also accused the lawmaker of awarding contracts worth trillions of Naira.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, in his reaction, the lawmaker representing Akoko North-East\/Akoko North-West Federal Constituency of Ondo State, dismissed Ojougboh\u2019s claims as a cheap blackmail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that these allegations are coming. As I have always said, these allegations are blackmail and it\u2019s surprising because I became the chairman of this Committee in September last year and between September and now I can say categorically that not a kobo of contract has been awarded for an emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo, I don\u2019t know how that figure comes in and how that assertion came into being. It\u2019s laughable because IMC themselves came into being in October last year, a month after I became the chairman of this Committee. The same Dr. Cairo said on Arise TV that they have not awarded a single contract since they came on board so how did one trillion, two trillion or whatever trillion contracts were awarded? This is just sheer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/umahis-alleged-membership-of-apc-a-cheap-blackmail-ebonyi-govt\/\">blackmail<\/a>&nbsp;I expected it from the onset when the investigation process started and the bottom line is that we are not going to be dead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has alleged threats to his life by some militants over the proposed probe of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the&nbsp;NDDC&nbsp;for alleged financial improprieties. 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