EFCC arrests ex-MD of NDDC, Ekere over alleged N47bn fraud.
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested Nsima Ekere, the former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, over the said diversion of N47 billion through registered contractors of the agency.
An EFCC spokesperson Wilson Uwajaren, confirmed this to Channels Television, yesterday.
Nsima Ekere is a politician from Akwa Ibom State who was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari to head the NDDC in 2016.
He resigned in 2019 to take on his ambition as a governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Akwa Ibom State. He however, lost to the , Udom Emmanuel of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
