Amaechi’s wife reacts to Wike’s claim of her getting N48bn from NDDC | READ DETAILS
The wife of the former minister for transportation, Judith Amaechi, has denied claims that she got ₦4bn monthly from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for women empowerment and training.
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, had in an interview claimed Judith got ₦4bn monthly and a total of ₦48bn to train Niger Delta women.
However, reacting in a statement, her spokesperson, Dike Bekwele, on Tuesday said;
“Dame Amaechi did not and has never received four billion naira monthly payments (₦4,000,000,000.00) from the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
“The partnership between the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI) and the NDDC is reciprocal, to jointly fund human capacity programmes and trainings for the teeming youths and women; supporting nano, micro, small and medium scale entrepreneurs, and its entrepreneurial development centre for youths and women of the Niger Delta Region.
“It will be preposterous for Wike to allege that the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI) or Dame Judith Amaechi was indicted in the NDDC forensic audit report, which has not been published to the Nigerian Public. It is both absurd, baseless, and a mere figment of Mr. Wike’s imagination,” the statement read.
Judith challenged Wike to make public his version of the forensic audit report on the NDDC, where either she or the ESI was indicted.
“In the likely event that Wike fails to provide such report, then we challenge Mr. Wike to actuate his boast and make bold to tender his resignation as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, forthwith with an unreserved apology to the Nation.”
