Managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, has assured that the people of the Niger Delta region are going to experien
We will put all these together and come up with a comprehensive vision for the people of the Niger Delta.”The NDDC chief executive officer said that stakeholders from different ethnic groups in the Niger Delta region would have nothing to worry about, as their interests would be accommodated in the activities of the Commission.
Addressing the issue of budgeting, Ogbuku said that the board would review the process to ensure that funds were properly and adequately provided for projects and programmes. He observed: “One of the problems of the NDDC comes from budgeting. For instance, you cannot budget for a project of ten billion naira and provide only one billion for the budget cycle. Where that is the case, it will take ten years to complete the project.
Ogbuku stressed that henceforth, the commission would only engage companies that have the capacity to deliver quality jobs. He remarked, however, that Niger Deltans with the capacity to meet the commission’s standards would not be neglected, adding: “We don’t want the Niger Delta people to be spectators in the development process.
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