NDDC yet to submit 2019 budget to N/Assembly — Reps

The House of Representatives yesterday accused the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission of unethical practices.

Chairman, House Committee on NDDC, Olubunmi TunjiOjo, at the inaugural meeting of the committee, said the commission had not submitted its 2019 budget proposal to the National Assembly.

He said the NDDC was still operating on the 2018 budget; which is contrary to the Act establishing it.

He said: “Today is October 9th, the commission is yet to bring the budget for the 2019 fiscal year, not to talk The National Youth Service Corps says it has devised a new strategy of verifying certificates and other documents submitted for mobilization by Nigerian foreign trained graduates with effect from 2019 Batch ‘B’ Stream ll Service Year.

In a statement yesterday, by the management of the scheme said 11 centres across the six geo-political zones had been earmarked across the country of the 2020 of which the Mr. President submitted before the Assembly on Tuesday, what has commission been operating with?”

He said the non-remittance of statutory contributions to the NNDC by oil and gas companies operating in the Niger Delta region and other entities was threatening the fulfilment of the commission’s core mandate.

“As the June 2019, outstanding remittances of oil companies and gas processing companies stood at N1.2trn, the Federal Government on its part has an outstanding of over N1.5trn, the Ecological Fund Office has never remitted any money and the commission has accumulated debts to the tune of over a trillion naira,” he said. for the verification exercise.

The NYSC urged foreign trained prospective corps members to physically present themselves along with original copies of their degree certificates, transcript and travel documents for verification, hence they must have successfully gotten registered on the NYSC portal and chosen their physical verification centre.

The exercise will hold from 21st to 26th of October.