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The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC says communities where projects are vandalized will be excluded from intervention projects in future.
Ajunwa Daniel, the Cross River State Director of the Commission disclosed this during a capacity building engagement on Community Ownership and protection of NDDC projects in Calabar.
According to him, “The NDDC is doing a whole lot to make life better for people across the region but when our efforts is thwarted by vandals, we are not happy about it.
“It is disheartening that after investing so much across the region, hoodlums and criminals steal our projects.
“We have resolved that as a commission any community that allows vandalism to take place in its domain that community will no longer have NDDC projects.
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“If you are given a solar light for instance, the record is there so you have to guide it, protect it and take ownership of it”, he said.
He explained that the commission had engaged 100 vanguards across the state to take the message to their communities.
Dr. Carol Ebuta, the facilitator of the workshop said it’s imperative to boost the capacity of communities because there is so much gap between what the NDDC has done and what is on the ground.
He said about 50% of NDDC intervention projects are not on ground the way they were implemented as they have either been vandalized, abandoned or stolen.
The workshop he said, will build the capacity of the communities to take ownership of NDDC projects within their locality.
