A group under the aegis of the Independent Service Watch has staged a protest at the Abuja office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

The protesters asked the anti-graft agency to investigate the leadership of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, for alleged corrupt practices and abuse of office.

National Coordinator of the group, Danielson Momoh, accused the NDDC of awarding contracts to unregistered companies as well as not allowing contracts to pass through due process before they are awarded.

He said, “The Independent Service Watch, as a group that frowns at corruption and looting of public funds under any guise has identified with patriotic discontent, the monumental act of fraud and financial abuse being perpetrated at the NDDC awarding contracts to unregistered companies in Nigeria is against the Nigerian law.”

But reacting, the Chairman Board of NDDC, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba said the commission is unruffled by the activities of the protesters.

According to him, the commission is doing all it can to clean up the huge contract deficit it met when it assumed office two years ago.

Ndoma-Egba explained that the clean-up has led to the cancellation of over N300 billion worth of contracts by the previous administration of the NDDC.

•Sourced from a Channels TV report