Premium Only Content
NIGERIAN OFFICIAL 'FAINTS' DURING CORRUPTION PROBE
How far might one go to dodge accountability?
In 2020, Kemebradikumo Daniel Pondei, then acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), caused a social media storm after he appeared to faint while members of the Nigerian House of Representatives questioned him over alleged corruption. Live television had captured the moment.
While only medical professionals can determine the authenticity of the occurrence, Nigerians were not so convinced. Many on social media saw it as Pondei’s attempt to avoid consequences after being caught dipping his fingers in the public’s cookie jar. Pondei appears only to have served during 2020.
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo formed the NDDC in 2000 to address the hostilities of several delta-inhabiting ethnic groups toward the London-based Shell oil company. Nigeria’s Supreme Court ruled in January in favour of hearing Shell’s appeal to overturn a 2022 ruling. That ruling required Shell to clean $12 billion in environmental degradation caused by oil spills before divesting—or selling—$2.4 billion in Nigeria-based oil assets. Stakeholders have lodged multiple cases against Shell in the courts of Nigeria, England and the Netherlands. Meanwhile, Houston-based ExxonMobil and Rome-based Eni are other major extractors in Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil exporter.
Let us know in the comments if you believe Pondei fainted and what you think about Nigerian resources being in foreign hands.
-
LIVE
Dr Disrespect
7 hours ago🔴LIVE - DR DISRESPECT - MARVEL RIVALS - GOLD VANGUARD
3,273 watching -
1:15:00
Awaken With JP
6 hours agoMerry Christmas NOT Happy Holidays! Special - LIES Ep 71
84.9K88 -
1:42:21
The Quartering
8 hours agoTrump To INVADE Mexico, Take Back Panama Canal Too! NYC Human Torch & Matt Gaetz Report Drops!
78.9K45 -
2:23:15
Nerdrotic
7 hours ago $9.32 earnedA Very Merry Christmas | FNT Square Up - Nerdrotic Nooner 453
57.3K4 -
1:14:05
Tucker Carlson
7 hours ago“I’ll Win With or Without You,” Teamsters Union President Reveals Kamala Harris’s Famous Last Words
138K286 -
1:58:31
The Dilley Show
7 hours ago $29.46 earnedTrump Conquering Western Hemisphere? w/Author Brenden Dilley 12/23/2024
119K27 -
1:09:59
Geeks + Gamers
8 hours agoSonic 3 DESTROYS Mufasa And Disney, Naughty Dog Actress SLAMS Gamers Over Intergalactic
78.8K19 -
51:59
The Dan Bongino Show
9 hours agoDemocrat Donor Admits The Scary Truth (Ep. 2393) - 12/23/2024
777K2.49K -
2:32:15
Matt Kohrs
20 hours agoRumble CEO Chris Pavlovski Talks $775M Tether Partnership || The MK Show
118K30 -
28:23
Dave Portnoy
20 hours agoDavey Day Trader Presented by Kraken - December 23, 2024
151K40