HOUSE OF REPS SET TO INVESTIGATE CORRUPTION CHARGES AGAINST MINISTER OF NIGER DELTA AFFAIRS.

Orubebe Mansion at Mabuchi

This are not the best of time fro the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs as the House of Representatives has ordered an investigation into a “multi-billion naria” mansion said to belong to the him. the property, located at Mabushi in the Federal Capital Territory, was said to have been built for the minister by a construction firm, SETRACO.

The House endorsed a motion sponsored by Odeneye Kehinde on the matter and resolved to probe the ownership of the property and it directed the house committees on Anti-Corruption, Drugs/Narcotics/Financial Crimes and Justice to conduct the investigation within 21 days and produce a report.

Kehinde noted that the property had been one of the issues dominating discussions lately in the country, adding that their is no evidence that the minister declared the house in his asset declaration with the Code of Conduct Bureau..

Kehinde also expressed surprise that neither the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission nor the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission had considered the issue important for investigation.

In the last few weeks the minister of Niger Delta Affairs has been under fire as various group have continued to canvas for the removal of Orubebe over some financial misappropriation at the ministry. A summary of the allegation runs thus:

The minister has paid for so many phantom projects.

The minister is presently resident in a house at Mabushi District Abu]a built and handed over to him by SETRACO, a construction company that doubles as his crony. there are also allegations that the minister has choice properties in dubai and other parts of the world.

However the Minister has continued to deny all the allegations insisting that they are the handy works of his detractors, and he has continued to labour hard to fault all these revelations.