Joy Nunieh, former acting managing director of the Niger
Delta Development Commission (NDDC), says she slappped Godswill Akpabio,
minister of Niger Delta affairs, for sexually harassing her.
Speaking on Monday, during an interview on Arise TV, Nunieh
said the incident happened at the minister’s guest house in Abuja.
She said her reaction to the alleged harassment proved her
intolerance for “nonsense” as a woman from Rivers state.
“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 also accused Akpabio of trying to inflate
the NDDC budget.
She said the minister directed her to include some projects
from the refugee commission in the budget of the NDDC.
“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?”
Nunieh and Akpabio have made allegations against each other
following the activities of the senate ad hoc panel investigating the alleged
mismanagement of N40 billion by the interim management committee (IMC) of the
NDDC.
Akpabio had told the panel that he knew nothing about the
expenditure of the NDDC under Nunieh because she refused to give him briefings.
But Nunieh alleged that the minister engineered her removal for
failing to follow his 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 had said.
Nunieh had also 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 to
implicate Peter Nwaoboshi, chairman of the senate committee on NDDC.
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