- Heineken Lokpobiri, President Bola Tinubu’s minister of state for petroleum, has been accused of moving to pad the budget of the NCDMB by N30bn
- Simbi Wabote, the immediate past executive secretary of the NCDMB, made the allegation against the minister in a statement
- In his response, the minister said the former NCDMB boss was suffering from being removed from office, where he had spent seven years
Yenagoa, Bayelsa – President Bola Tinubu’s minister of state for petroleum resources (oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, has been accused of inflating the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) allocation in the 2024 budget.
Simbi Wabote, the immediate past executive secretary of the NCDMB, made the allegation in a statement sent to Legit.ng, noting that the minister mounted pressure on him to increase his office’s budget by N30 billion in December 2023.
