All You Should Know As Ex-NDDC MD, Joi Nunieh Claims She Slapped Akpabio Over Sexual Harassment
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- July 13, 2020
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Former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Joi Nunieh, has accused Niger Delta Minister Godswill Akpabio of sexually harassing her.
In an interview with Arise TV on Monday, Nunieh said that she had to slap Akpabio for trying to “come upon me.”
She also that Akpabio removed her from office because she refused to yield to his sexual advances and corruption motives.
“I am the only Nigerian woman…the only Ogoni woman that has slapped him. I slapped him because of his plan B. He wanted me to take a blood oath of secrecy in Abuja,” she said.
“I am the only woman in Nigeria to have slapped Akpabio” – says Dr Joi Nunieh, detailing the incident when Minister Godswill Akpabio wanted to take advantage of her. #JoiNunieh #GodswillAkpabio #NDDCProbe #NDDC #ARISENews pic.twitter.com/kZXpCdcJd2
— ARISE News Feed (@ARISEtv) July 13, 2020
In his reaction, Akpabio described Nunieh as an angry woman who had problems with her former husbands because of her temperament.
“Let me just point this out. The last managing director that you mentioned. No matter the allegation, I wished that she would go to a hospital and get some injections and relax.
“I am saying that there is something wrong with her temperament. You don’t need to ask me. You can ask about four other husbands that she married. You also need to bring all the former husbands. At least bring four of them that she has married in the past to this studio, so that you ask them questions, one after the other. Because it looks like a character problem.
In her response, Nunieh said; “Yes, I am accusing him of sexual harassment. Akpabio is most interested in my love life. Did he want to be my seventh husband? That’s why Akpabio told the world that I am temperamental. You know why Akpabio will tell the world that I am temperamental? Because of that incident where I slapped him.”
Nunieh has repeatedly accused Akpabio of forcing her to commit fraud, forcing her to inflate the budget of the NDDC, forcing her to take an oath of secrecy and grand-scale corruption.
Nigerians have taken to Twitter to react to the saga. See some reactions below.
If Akpabio can sit on television and say to the interviewer “dont ask me, ask her four husbands”. Such an uncouth person has the tendency to sexually harass in private. I can imagine him molesting the woman and saying “What is wrong with you, I am better than your four husbands”.
— Ayò Bánkólé (@AyoBankole) July 13, 2020
This is not the time to talk about resource control and blame other tribes. This is the time to call on agencies of the Federal Government in charge of anti-corruption to thoroughly investigate the very serious allegations against the NDDC & Akpabio. The Buhari led FG should act!
— Dr. Dípò Awójídé (@OgbeniDipo) July 13, 2020
After viewing videos of Nunieh talking about sexual harassment & looting, allegedly carried out by @Senator_Akpabio, @MBuhari should suspend him. And allow security forces to probe him.
Akapbio is a stain on Akwa Ibom!
Akapbio is a stain on APC!
Akapbio is a stain on this Admin! //t.co/4N68nNohDh— Adetutu Balogun, MBA (@Tutsy22) July 13, 2020
If Akpabio could sit on national tv and had the effrontery to turn a corruption allegation against him into a personal attack; involving Joi Nunieh’s husbands, I am inclined to believe the sexual harrasment accusation too.
— Somto Onuchukwu (@chosensomto) July 13, 2020
