The Chairman, Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Lauretta Onochie, has decried the level of underdevelopment in the Niger Delta area despite the huge funds allocated to the interventionist agency over the years.
“We are here to reposition the NDDC. We are here to serve the people of the Niger Delta and by extension people of Nigeria. We are here to do things differently. When I returned from the Diaspora in 2014 to join his campaign, what I heard everywhere was ‘that’s not how we do it here. Madam, this is not London; this is not the UK’.
“We are here to do things differently. We have come up with ideas and I believe that every one of you seated here has great and beautiful ideas. If you have been lost in the system of doing things in the way they used to be done, please dust them and throw them away. We have new ideas and we welcome the same new ideas from you.”
Earlier, the new NDDC Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, said the management had not come to antagonise anybody. He said, “I want to, first of all, assure you that we are not to antagonise anybody. We are here to also depend on your experience. The NDDC administration needs experience.”“We are not here like one party handing over from one party. We are not here to fight anybody. We are all people from Niger Delta. I want all of you to rest assured that, based on your competence, you are going to be working with this administration.”All rights reserved.
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