NDDC: Akpabio dares Amaechi to prove 50% deductions

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Senate President Godswill Akpabio has challenged former Rivers Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, to provide evidence for his allegation of 50% deductions from NDDC Read More:…

Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has challenged former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, to provide documentary evidence to support his allegation that he introduced a 50 per cent deduction from payments to contractors handling projects for the Niger Delta Development Commission.

He disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Eseme Eyiboh.

Akpabio, who described the allegation as weighty, noted that Amaechi had yet to provide contract documents, payment records or details of identifiable transactions to substantiate it.

Amaechi, a former Minister of Transportation and vice-presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, had accused the Senate President of introducing the alleged deductions while addressing supporters at the ADC campaign rally held at the Tafawa Balewa Stadium in Bauchi State on Saturday.

The former governor also criticised President Bola Tinubu over the country’s economic hardship.

His allegation followed what he described as recent comments by Akpabio against him in Port Harcourt.

However, Akpabio challenged Amaechi to identify the contractors affected, the contracts involved, when the deductions were allegedly made and the payment arrangements through which they occurred.

The lawmaker also demanded evidence linking him personally to the alleged practice.

He said, “An allegation delivered before an enthusiastic political audience does not, by that circumstance alone, acquire the status of an established fact.” FILE: Amaechi

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