Former Acting Managing Director of the NDDC, Joy Nunieh, claims that Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger
Delta Affairs harassed her sexually, and that was why she slapped him.
She talked on the issue during an interview with Arise TV where she said she is the only Nigerian woman to slap the minister. She added that the incident happened at his guest house in Abuja.
“Why did he not tell Nigerians that I slapped him in his guest house at Apo? I am the only Ogoni woman, the only Nigerian woman that has slapped him. I slapped him because of his plan B. Since he couldn’t get me to take that money, he thought that he could come up on me. He didn’t know that I’m a Port Harcourt girl. Port Harcourt girls are not moved by money…by somebody telling me that he will make me the substantive MD. Akpabio’s meetings with me were either at Apo or Meridien…Yes, I am accusing him of sexual harassment.”
She commented recently, days after she had accused the minister of fraud. She said during her brief tenure at the commission, Mr Akpabio repeatedly pressured her to take “an oath of secrecy” that was meant to prevent her from exposing any fraud at the commission. But she did not give any evidence to support her claims against the minister. She added that she would have been jailed if she had agreed to Mr Akpabio’s ‘oath of secrecy’.
Mr Akpabio, in turn, said Ms Nunieh has temperament issues. This is even as he suggested she sees a doctor.
The minister said Ms Nunieh was not relieved of her appointment because of corruption but because of insubordination.
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