Fwd: Senate summons Ecological Fund officials over NDDC.

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From: Adenola Weelz Adeniyi <adenolaadeniyi2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 06:03:04 +0100
Subject: Senate summons Ecological Fund officials over NDDC.
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The Senate has summoned officials of the Ecological
Fund to appear before it next week over its failure to
remit three (3) percent of the fund to the oil
producing states in the Niger Delta Development
Commission (NDDC).
The acting Managing Director of the NDDC, Mrs. Ibim
Semenitari had told the Senate Committee on Niger
Delta that the Fund has refused to remit the statutory
three (3) per cent contribution of the oil producing
states from the fund to the commission since 2001.
Media aide to the acting Managing Director, Bekee
Anyalewechi told The Guardian that the NDDC
management had repeatedly written to the Ecological
Fund to release all the money due it from the fund
but to no avail.
He also explained that all efforts to persuade the
governors of the oil producing states has also not
yielded any positive result.
Under the NDDC Act, all oil-producing states are
expected to contribute 3 percent of their ecological
fund to the NDDC. But Mrs. Semenitari while
presenting the status report of the Commission to
the senate committee on Niger Delta in Abuja, said
none of the nine oil producing states has made their
statutory contribution since the commission was
established fifteen years ago.
Chairman Senate Committee on Niger Delta, Senator
Peter Nwaoboshi, therefore gave the commission the
assurance that it would help it recover all the monies
due to it from the Ecological Fund.