BEVERLY HILLS, July 16, (THEWILL) – Officers of the Nigerian police force have stormed the residence of Joy Nunieh, former acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
The security agents arrived at the residence located at 3, Owuru Creek view, off Herbert Macaulay Street, Old GRA, Port Harcourt, Rivers state, early Thursday morning.
Nunieh, who was due to appear before Senate committee on NDDC in Abuja this morning, was blocked by the armed policemen from leaving her house for the airport.
THEWILL recalls that Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, and Nunieh had been in throwing darts at each other following their appearance last week before a Senate ad hoc panel investigating the alleged mismanagement of N40bn by the Interim Management Committee of the NDDC.
At the hearing, Akpabio said he did not know the expenditure of the NDDC under Nunieh because she refused to give him briefings but Nunieh made damning allegations against Akpabio saying the minister engineered her removal for failing to dance to his tunes.
She alleged that Akpabio asked her to change the dollars in the NDDC account; sack the head of the legal team, who is from the North; remove all directors, who refused to follow his instructions and also implicate Peter Nwaoboshi, Chairman of the Senate Committee on NDDC.
According to Nunieh, Akpabio warned that if she did not follow his instructions, she would be removed.
She also alleged that Akpabio would never sign any document but rather ask his subordinates to commit fraud adding that the minister asked her to take an oath of secrecy to stop her from exposing any of his dealings but she refused.
Undone, Nunieh revealed that she allegedly slapped Akpabio for sexually harassing her saying he was fond of scheduling meetings in his hotel room.
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