The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has assured the people of the oil -bearing states of the Niger Delta that it will continue to dot the landscape of the region with life transforming projects.
Samuel Ogbuku, the managing director/ chief executive of the interventionist agency made this assertion recently during the virtual media tour of select journalists of key projects executed by the NDDC, asserting that the era of proeject abandonment was gone.
According to Ogbuku, who was represented by the Executive director, Project the agency will ensure that the eight states under the NDDC are transformed, in terms of infrastructure, in line with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s quest to leave a lasting legacy for the people of the oil producing region.
The projects executed so far, Ogbuku stated spanned areas such as health, road and bridge construction, electricity, Education, amongst others.
“We have constructed and rehabilitated 5,141.3 kilometers of road through swamps and virgin forests; built 42 bridges and thousands of hydraulic structures, built 87 jetties,” the MD said.
We also constructed the Ogbia-Nembe road of 25.5 kilometers, five bridges, seven culverts, connects 14 riverine communities; constructed Ibeno road and bridge which include six kilometers road, 600 meters bridge, and linked 20 communities.”
The ongoing project bazaar of the Ogbuku-led NDDC spanned the entire region, the agency said.
Ogbuku said further: “we commissioned the Ididep Ekpenyong Ikt Etim Afaha Itiat Road in Akwa Ibom state; commissioned the Ugilaimai-Ogume, Abbi road in Delta state” as well as the commissioning of Onicha-Ugbo, Idumuje-ugboko-Ewohimi Bridge and road in delta state.
Project commissioned by the commission include, the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt-Owerri Road; the repair of Atan/ Amuvi road in Arochukwu, Abia state; the installation of 3, 806.15 kilometer of distribution lines and 527 transformers to communities in Ondo state; provision of 45 kilometer double circuit 33kv feeder transmission lines from Omotosho Power station to Okitipupa, and two 30 MVA 132/33kv substations with breakers, gantry and substation automation in the state.
The commission has also rehabilitated 35 33/11 kv transmission lines from Okitipupa-igbokoda-Ugbonla and environs; completion of 1×15 MVA 33/11 KVA injection substation for five communities in Edo state.
The commission said it has also installed 56,786 sola street lights across the nine states in the region, while it has also constructed and rehabilitated 678 water schemes in various communities in the region.
In education, the NDDC has awarded 2, 323 foreign post graduate scholarships, constructed and rehabilitated 924 schools and I,571 hostel rooms, provided 107, 480 educational items to schools, community-wide, while over 2300 students have benefitted from NDDC Foreign Post Graduate programme.
The health care sector has not been left out, considering that the agency have equipped 142 health centres and hospitals with modern facilities; administered over 88,000 typhoid vaccines to the peoples in the nine NDDC states, distributed 36,000 sets of essential drugs, free medical outreaches, 20,000 surgeries to 45,000 patients, and 27,000 eyeglasses distributed to people across the nine NDDC states.
Meanwhile, close watchers of the agency insist that the life transforming projects by the NDDC which now dot the length and breath of the Niger Delta, is in fulfilment of the Ogbuku-led administration promise not to abandon any project in the region.
Ogbuku had said that the agency will ensure that it eliminated the era of abandoned projects in the region.
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