IT was a can of worms that was let open on Thursday, during the investigative public hearing by the Senate Ad-hoc committee on investigation of the alleged financial recklessness in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
The Senate committee interrogated the rationale behind some expenditures it considered curious especially the amount involved in the expenditure from the document presented to the Senate by the (NDDC).
Chairman of the committee, Senator Adebunmi Adetunmbi, reeled out figures of expenditure between October and May end.
Some of the figures include:
Community relations – N1.3 billion
Condolences – N122.9 million
Consultancy – N83.8 million
COVID-19 – N3.14 billion
Duty Tour Allowances (DTA) – N486m out of which IMC 2 spent N302 million
Imprest – N790.9 million
Lassa fever intervention – N1.9 billion
Legal service – N900 million
Logistics – N61 million
Maintenance – N230 million
Medical – N2.6 billion
Overseas Travel – N85.6 million
Project – N38.6 billion
Publicity – N1.121 billion
security – N744 million
Staffing – N20.9 billion
Stakeholders – N248 million
Travels – N56.5 million.