{"id":27427,"date":"2020-07-20T15:42:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27427"},"modified":"2020-07-20T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T14:42:10","slug":"part-8-nddc-corruption-bazaar-reps-panel-head-steps-aside-nddc-boss-faints-during-questioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=27427","title":{"rendered":"Part 8 NDDC Corruption Bazaar: Reps panel head steps aside; NDDC boss faints during questioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The investigation into the alleged corruption in the Niger Delta Development Commission is taking unimagined turns as a near fatality almost occured on Monday. The Managing Director of the Interim Management Committee of NDDC, Professor Daniel Pondei, passed out, and frantic efforts were made to revive him.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1285190336889925635<br \/>\nEarlier in the day, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee conducting the investigations, into alleged mismanagement of N40 billion, Mr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo (APC-Ondo), stepped aside.<br \/>\nLast week, the NDDC asked him to step down, a development which led to Pondei walking out on the Reps panel last week.<br \/>\nAfter the faint spell and resuscitation, Pondei could not continue his response to questions and left the National Assembly.<br \/>\nMr Tunji-Ojo resigned a few minutes to noon on Monday, noting that he would be available to meet anti-graft agencies over allegations by NDDC he was complicit in corruption scandals at the Commission. He was immediately replaced by Thomas Ereyitomi (PDP-Delta).<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0e <strong>Video courtesy of SaharaReporters.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The investigation into the alleged corruption in the Niger Delta Development Commission is taking unimagined turns as a near fatality almost occured on Monday. The Managing Director of the Interim Management Committee of NDDC, Professor Daniel Pondei, passed out, and frantic efforts were made to revive him. https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1285190336889925635 Earlier in the day, the Chairman of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1930,1931,1101],"class_list":["post-27427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-faint","tag-pondei","tag-reps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}