NDDC warns contractors against payment of commissions to middlemen

In a bid to sanitize its operations, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has declared as illegal the payment of percentages on contract sums and all forms of financial inducements to middlemen who claim to be fronting for the commission’s officials.

The Managing Director of the commission, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, who made the declaration during an interactive session with contractors at the commission’s headquarters in Port Harcourt, described the contractors as partners in the development of the Niger Delta region, stressing that they should resist the temptation of falling victims to persons who claim to be agents of the executive directors and directors of the commission that facilitate payments based on monetary inducements.

Dr Ogbuku stated that neither himself, or the two executive directors has authorised anybody to act on their behalf as they are determined to make any sacrifice to bring back sanity to the Commission and reposition it for efficient service delivery.