The Niger Delta Development Commission has promised to complete all ongoing projects in the Niger Delta region.
The NDDC Managing Director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku gave this assurance after inspecting the 6-kilometre Obuama Internal Roads in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Ogbuku also assured that the Commission’s projects in Harry’s Town, Degema LGA will also be given the desired attention.
A statement signed by the NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Dr Ibitoye Abosede, in Port Harcourt, stressed that the commission would continue to deliver quality projects for the benefit of the region.
The NDDC Chief Executive Officer, who was accompanied by the Executive Director Projects, Mr. Charles Ogunmola and other directors, further vowed that the commission would complete all ongoing projects in the community, so they could positively impact on the lives of the people.
Ogbuku also paid a courtesy visit to a former leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Alabo Asari Dokubo, where he noted that it was only proper to visit the activist, whose mother hails from Obuama, insisting: “You cannot just go for project inspection and leave from the site.”
The NDDC boss maintained that the Commission was eager to complete all the projects in the community, maintaining that: “We will look at all the issues raised by the community to ensure that the projects are completed for the benefit of the people. Every community in the region deserves to benefit from the NDDC project.
He continued: “I had to personally come to inspect the projects here, given my deep and special ties to the people.
“I could not leave the inspection to the NDDC Project Monitoring and Supervision Department.”
Responding, Dokubo pledged to assist the Governing Board of the NDDC to stabilise, so that it could work effectively for the people of the region.
He stated: “I am very humbled by this visit. It is not every time that an NDDC MD will come with his entourage.
“We have known most of the MDs, but he is the only one who has come to see me. I am grateful.
“I am not going to ask for anything from him, because the community is saturated with NDDC projects that are stalled.
“I think if my brother will assist in completing these projects, we will be satisfied. We are not going to ask for more.
“The chiefs have already told him; these projects were there before but were stalled for various reasons. Now, we pray that by the grace of God they will be completed,” Dokubo remarked.
Speaking earlier at the Obuama Community Town Hall, the Chairman of Obuama Council of Chiefs, Alabo Stanley Dick Harry, praised NDDC for the various projects it had executed in the community and urged the Commission to complete other on-going projects
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