BREAKING: Ahead Senate Appearance, Police Blocks ex-NDDC MD, Nunieh’s From Leaving Home

Joi Nunieh, a former acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), is believed to have been trapped in her house in Port Harcourt as police laid siege to the residence.

Police surrounded her residential apartment located at 3, Owuru Creek view, off Herbert Macaulay Street, Old GRA, Port Harcourt, Rivers state, early Thursday morning.

Nunieh is billed to appear before a senate panel in Abuja investigating the alleged monumental fraud and misappropriation in the NDDC.

“The policemen arrived at Nunieh’s residence at 3 Owuru Creek View, off Herbert Macaulay Street, Old GRA, Port Harcourt, at about 4am. Their presence means she cannot leave for the Port Harcourt International Airport where she should be connecting a flight to Abuja”, investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo tweeted on Thursday morning.

“Nunieh recently accused Niger Delta Minister Godswil Akpabio of trying to “come up” on her after failing to bribe her and convince her to take an oath of secrecy in Abuja”, Soyombo said.

BIGPEN recall that Akpabio and Nunieh recently had a spat after they both appeared before the senate ad hoc panel investigating the alleged mismanagement of N81.5 billion by the interim management committee (IMC) of the NDDC.

Meanwhile, River state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, said he cannot confirmed the identities of the policemen stationed at her residence, but a former aide to Numieh, said the “invading mobile police claimed they are from Mopol 19.”

Details later…