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General News of Monday, 13 July 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

I slapped Akpabio for sexually harassing me - Former NDDC MD, Joy Nunieh

Godswill Akpabio and Joy Nunieh (img credit: Pulse) Godswill Akpabio and Joy Nunieh (img credit: Pulse)

Joy Nunieh, a former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has said that she slapped the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, when he tried to sexually harass her.

She revealed that the incident happened at his guest house and that she's the only woman who has slapped him.

Nunieh disclosed this during an interview with Arise TV.

“Why did he not tell Nigerians that I slapped him in his guest house at Apo? I am the only woman that slapped Akpabio. He thought he could come up on me. He tried to harass me sexually,” she said.

“I slapped him. He tried to come on me. I am an Ogoni woman and nobody jokes with us. I showed Akpabio that Rivers women do not tolerate nonsense.”

The former NDDC MD accused Akpabio of ordering her to inflate the NDDC budget by including projects from the refugee commission.

“Akpabio wrote me to put a list of projects from the refugee commission in the budget of NDDC. Refugee commission is another federal government commission for IDPs,” she said.

“How do you tell me to put some of their projects in the NDDC budget when we have so many things to do in the Niger Delta? How do you explain that?”

The outburst from both parties comes amid an investigation from a Senate Adhoc Committee on the misappropriation of N40 billion by the NDDC interim management committee (IMC).

Akpabio revealed that he knew nothing about the expenditure under NDDC because Nunieh failed to brief him.

Nunieh stated that her sack was engineered by Akpabio for failing to adhere to his illegal orders.

“When we first came to the NDDC, on the day of going for the inauguration, he told me in the car that Madam MD, If you don’t do what I say, the same pen which I use to sign your letter, it will be the same pen I will use to remove you", she said.

She also alleged that Akpabio told her to sack the head of the legal team who i from the north, change the dollars in the NDDC account and also implicate the chairman of the Senate committee on NDDC, Senator Peter Nwabaoshi.