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The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to halt the appropriation of 4.2 million pounds recovered from former Gov. James Ibori of Delta.
The resolution followed a unanimous adoption of a motion by Minority Leader Ndudi Elumelu (PDP-Delta) at plenary on Wednesday.
Recall that Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, had said that President Muhammadu Buhari directed that the returned loots be deployed for the completion of the second Niger Bridge, the Lagos-Ibadan expressway and the Abuja to Kano expressway.
Malami said this shortly after the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ms. Catriona Laing expressed the country’s readiness to return looted assets worth £4.2 million to Nigeria.
The motion was co-sponsored by nine other lawmakers from Delta.
Speaking,
James Ibori was being transferred to the coffers of the federal government for appropriation.
According to him, this is without recourse to the Delta Government.
The rep said that the money belongs to the people of Delta and should be refunded to the coffers of the State Government for developmental purposes.
Elumelu said that assets seized by Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from other states were returned to those states as the case in Bayelsa and Abia.
“If the federal government is allowed to appropriate the fund without recourse to the Delta Government, the people of the state will be shortchanged.
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Delta Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa (middle); Deputy Governor of Delta, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro (6th left); Interim Administrator/CEO, NDDC, Mr. Effiong Akwa (6th right) and other members of the management of NDDC during a condolence visit to Governor Okowa, over the death of his Father, Pa. Arthur Okowa, in Government House ,Asaba. Thursday
Delta Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, on Thursday urged the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to focus on the development of the Niger Delta with the vision that was people-oriented.
Okowa made the call when the Interim Administrator of the Commission, Mr Effiong Akwa and his management team visited him at Government House, Asaba.