Covid19: Journalist Fisayo Soyombo Lays Strong Allegations, Slams NDDC Over Misuse Of Funds

Investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo lays strong allegations against NDDC, and slams NDDC over misuse of funds meant for PPE and other medical consumables and equipments.

According to him, the sum of 4.9billion niara was awarded for emergency procurement of PPE, and other medical consumables and equipments needed for handling covid19 csses. According to him, none of the materials were provided, as many hospital still had shortage of medical supplies, including PPE.

On his Facebook timeline, he wrote:

"On April 6, the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) awarded a N4.9billion contract to ‘Osmoserve Nigeria Limited’ for the emergency procurement of medical consumables and equipment, including PPE, for use in “testing, treatment and care of COVID-19 cases” in the region.

Seven weeks after, there is no Niger Delta state where healthcare workers aren’t complaining of PPE shortage. To be more specific, there has been no noticeable increase in the availability of PPE to healthcare workers before and after the award of the contract".

Continuing, he demanded that NCDC should provide an explanation of how the funds were used and what there were used for, considering that the materials for which the money was donated, were not supplied.

"Please join me in asking NDDC what happened to funds.

#NDDCWhereIsTheMoney?"

He further attached a photo of a document to verify his claims.

This is a very strong allegation.

Could this be true?

Anyway, we await NCDC's response.

Thanks for coming.