......Wants Presidency and National Assembly to Ensure More Funds For Commission To Engage In Environmental Remediation.
The National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC SouthEast has commended the leadership of Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC For it’s development strides since the inception of his leadership.
Arodiogbu, stated this whilst 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.
Arodiogbu described Ogbuku as a technocrat with a visionary approach to issues of development having initiated first class projects such as the “Light Up The Niger Delta” a number of groundbreaking road infrastructure projects spanning the nine states that make up the Niger Delta and a number of initiatives which would have turned the region around had they been implemented since it’s inception.
He urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Minister of Niger Delta and the National Assembly to ensure more funding for the commission which had shown that it could judiciously put the resources to work for the people of the region who were in dire need for the Ogbuku managerial magic to meet the Renewed Hope Agenda of the Bola Tinubu administration as well as to ensure that the commission engaged much more in environmental remediation which was a part of its mandate as slated in Section 7 subsection 1(H) of the Act Establishing the commission. Arodiogbu cited examples such as the recent Oil spills by a number of oil drilling companies such as Shell which impoverished millions of citizens; without such remediation.
“ 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. Asides this I am much impressed with the number of human capital development initiatives which is seeking 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 owing 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.