Nigeria, July 15 -- The budget defence session of the Niger Delta Development Commission ( NDDC) was cut short on Tuesday following discrepancies in the commission's budget report.

The Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the NDDC, led by the Managing Director, Daniel Pondei, had appeared before the National Assembly joint committee on Niger Delta Affairs to defend the agency's 2019 budget performance and the proposals for 2020.

The Senate had in March, approved N346.3 billion as the 2019 budget for the commission, against the N409 billion proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari. The 2019 budget expired in May.

The panel led by Peter Nwaoboshi ( PDP Delta North), queried the IMC over an alleged N143 billion 'missing' from the 2019 budg...