The Niger Delta
Development Commission (NDDC) has been charged to pay more attention to community development as part of its primary assignment.
The Director, Blessed Toby Service, Chief Anenyenwo Tobias, gave the charge during an interview with journalists, Monday in Port Harcourt.
He said close checks on the Niger Delta Communities revealed almost a total departure of the commission from its primary responsibility.
Tobias, explained that the oil bearing communities in the country would have been in a better shape if the agency was bent on its task.
According to him, political partern of contract awards was part of the challenges rocking the NDDC, saying unless such lacunae are removed, the commission may make no headway.
He noted that road projects would not have continued to be a major challenge in the Niger Delta, if not for the negligence of the commission.
The businessman also called on President Goodluck Jonathan to monitor closely the activities of the agency as to enable him find out some grey areas in the place.
He pointed that the agency was not conduit pipe but set up to meet and address the challenges of the grassroots people of Niger Delta.
Furthermore, he called on the management of the Commission, to try and add to the agency by introducing innovations that could move it forward.
On his assessment of the commission, he said they are below average and need to live over board as to meet up with the increasing yearnings of the people.