President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the tenure of the Professor Keme
Pondei-led Interim Management Committee of the Niger Delta Development
Commission (NDDC) from May 1 to December 31, 2020.
The extension is
to cover the period of the forensic audit of the NDDC, earlier approved
by the Federal Executive Council, under the chairmanship of the
President.
In the same vein, President Buhari equally approved that
the NDDC provides intervention support to complement efforts of the
Federal and State governments against further spread of COVID-19 in the
nine States of the Niger Delta region, in the sum of Six Billion, Two
Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (N6,250,000,000.00) only.
The
materials and supplies are to be done through Emergency Procurement
method as provided in Sections 42(b) (c) and 43 of the Public
Procurement Act, 2007.