Boms Tasks NDDC On N’Delta Communities Dev Urges It To Deploy Oil Money For Dev Purposes

Former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Rivers State, Hon Worgu Boms, has urged the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to deploy the huge allocations it receives from oil revenue for the massive infrastructural development of Niger Delta communities.
Boms stated this while speaking as a guest speaker at a public lecture organised by a group known as Journalists for Sustainable Development in Nigeria, at the Ernest Ikoli Press Center in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.
He said the interventionist agency should not only concentrate on the removal of water hyacinth on the Niger Delta waterways and the building of class room blocks, but also embark on projects that will promote sustainable economic growth in the oil rich region.
Boms, who described the NDDC as the regional government for the integration of the Niger Delta people, said; “The commission should devote itself to and commit its resources nearly wholly to the construction of and provision of modern speed railways for the beleaguered people of the Niger Delta.
“Railway services running from Cross Rivers State through Akwa lbom to Rivers State, down to Bayelsa, Edo and Ondo would be a mole visible index of measurement of the spending of oil money on the oil region and its people”.
He pointed out that such development strides will create employment and tackle poverty in the region.
He called for the amendment of the NDDC act to strengthen the operations of the commission to respond to enormous challenges of development in the region.
Boms who spoke on the topic, “Rivers of unity, peace and love: not of blood”, called on the Rivers State Government to create the enabling environment for investment and industrialization to thrive in the state so as to create employment and tackle poverty and crime.

By: Taneh Beemene