NDDC Approves Constitution of Verification Committee

Following a resolution of its 7th Governing Board at its 9th meeting, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has constituted a project verification and payment committee to ease the payment dimension of projects management.

According to a statement on Sunday, January 11, 2026 by the Commission’s Director, Corporate Affairs, Seledi Thompson-Wakama, the NDDC Board approved the committee to checkmate all infrastructure, electrification, desilting, environmental and water projects aimed at capturing them on the digitised platform as viable for payment.

Thompson-Wakama emphasized that the committee is in tandem with the Federal Government directives that all operations at the ministries, Department and Agencies should be digitised.

“It was therefore imperative for the NDDC Management to conduct a comprehensive verification of all completed projects to capture the necessary information in the Commission’s Directorate of Finance and Accounts’ electronic database for payment purposes.”

The Project Verification and Payment Committee would undertake a comprehensive verification of all completed projects in the region from inception to January 2023, to capture them in the Digitised database of the Directorate of Finance and Accounts for E-payments.

Members of the Committee include the Executive Director of Finance and Administration, Alabo Boma Iyaye, Chairman; the Executive Director of Projects, Victor Antai, member; the Director of Legal Services, Victor Arenyeka, Secretary; the Director of Project Monitoring and Supervision. Gbenga Omowanle, member; Director Finance and Accounts, Kunemofa Asu, member; and the Director Internal Audit, Lucky Ogbuji, member.