{"id":27702,"date":"2020-07-22T17:20:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=27702"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:20:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:20:51","slug":"why-buhari-should-sack-akpabio-imc-now-sagay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-sack-akpabio-imc-now-sagay","title":{"rendered":"Why Buhari should sack Akpabio, IMC now \u2013 Sagay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Itse Sagay, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council Against Corruption, PACAC, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to sack Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Sagay alleged that Akpabio was neck deep in the issues around the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.<\/p>\n<p>The National Assembly is currently investigating the Interim Management Committee, IMC, of NDDC over alleged fraud and mismanagement of funds.<\/p>\n<p>During an investigative hearing by the House of Representatives on Monday, Akpabio had accused members of the National Assembly of being beneficiaries of most of the contracts from NDDC.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sagay while appearing on Channels Television said the President should also sack members of NDDC IMC.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIf I were the President, if I were in his shoes, and if I was to advise him, I would say dissolve this interim committee, remove the Minister of the Niger Delta because he is neck-deep in it and bring in fresh people, probably people who have been properly nominated and then institute a very strict system of monitoring expenditure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Joy Nunieh, former Managing Director of NDDC had accused Akpabio of padding, fraud and sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister, however, denied all allegations Nunieh made against him and ordered his lawyers to initiate legal proceedings against her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Itse Sagay, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council Against Corruption, PACAC, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to sack Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs. Sagay alleged that Akpabio was neck deep in the issues around the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The National Assembly is currently investigating the Interim Management Committee, IMC, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":27705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[621,1425],"class_list":["post-27702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-akpabio","tag-ncdc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Buhari should sack Akpabio, IMC now \u2013 Sagay - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Itse Sagay, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council Against Corruption, PACAC, has advised President Muhammadu\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-sack-akpabio-imc-now-sagay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Buhari should sack Akpabio, IMC now \u2013 Sagay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Itse Sagay, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council Against Corruption, PACAC, has advised President Muhammadu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-sack-akpabio-imc-now-sagay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-22T17:20:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Prof.-Itse-Sagay-SAN.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-sack-akpabio-imc-now-sagay#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-sack-akpabio-imc-now-sagay\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Why Buhari should sack Akpabio, IMC now \u2013 Sagay\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-22T17:20:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-sack-akpabio-imc-now-sagay\"},\"wordCount\":218,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-sack-akpabio-imc-now-sagay#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/Prof.-Itse-Sagay-SAN.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Akpabio\",\"NCDC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-sack-akpabio-imc-now-sagay#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-sack-akpabio-imc-now-sagay\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-sack-akpabio-imc-now-sagay\",\"name\":\"Why Buhari should sack Akpabio, IMC now \u2013 Sagay - 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