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From Jude Chinedu, Enugu
The National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) South East Ijomah Arodiogbu has called on President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly to ensure more funding for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Arodiogbu made this known on Friday while entertaining questions from journalists on the performance of the NDDC as well as his expectations from the creation of the South East Development Commission (SEDC).
He said that more funding will ensure that the commission engages in more environmental remediation, which is one of its mandates.
The APC leader also commended the Managing Director of the Commission, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, for his leadership style, describing him as a technocrat with a visionary approach to issues of development having initiated first class projects spanning the nine states that make up the Niger Delta.
“As National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC SouthEast, I must spare no effort in commending the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Samuel Ogbuku owing to the commission’s development strides in the region.
“For example the “Light up the Niger Delta” has sought to light up communities in the area, asides such the NDDC has also carried out a number of electrification and infrastructural projects in the region connecting communities and giving a sense of meaning to these areas.
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“Asides this I am very impressed with the number of human capital development initiatives which seek to liberate our youths from unemployment and poverty, preparing them to become masters of their own fate.
“It is to this end that I am calling on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to ensure that the NDDC gets more funds not only to carry out more impressive projects which would impact positively on the region’s development, but to also enable the commission to carry out comprehensive environmental remediation in areas where oils spills had devastated the ecology of such areas as a result of these oil drilling multinationals such as Shell.
“Since such is in the core of the NDDC mandate in section 7, subsection 1(H) of the NDDC Act, we need the commission to be empowered to tackle headlong such issues. I am also begging the National Assembly to please assist the commission in using legislative oversight to its benefit in this regard.”
Arodiogbu also urged Ogbuku not to
neglect Imo and Abia states due to the establishment of the South East Development Commission, he hinted that since the SEDC was still in its formation stage, the NDDC should continue to cater for both states.
