Bayelsa Community Lampoons NDDC, Govt Over Incomplete, Abandoned Projects

Otuoke Community of Ogbia council area of Bayelsa State, has berated the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for alleged abandonment of infrastructural projects awarded in the community.
Speaking with The Tide during an assessment tour of projects awarded and executed by the commission in the community, the CDC Chairman, Pastor Emmanuel Egede said the agency has left incomplete a number of internal roads and the construction of a bridge at the Ewokiri axis of the community awarded not less than a decade ago.
The Tide gathered that Otuoke, host community of the Federal university in Bayelsa State is located in the Ogbia central geographical area of Ogbia Kingdom and borders no fewer than eight other sister autonomous communities.
Egede hinted that the commission has also abandoned a water project earlier awarded to the community sometime between 2012 and 2014, respectively.
The CDC boss who reiterated the need for timely completion of these projects, called on the commission to take a cursory look into its records of contracts awarded to the community with a view to completing them.
He also bared his mind on sister projects awarded by government in the community, stating that following the fast rising cosmopolitan nomenclature of the community, resulting from the existence of the Federal University in the area, the state government should also put into consideration the takeover, functionality and maintenance of the urban water project executed by the Federal Government in the area for the provision of potable water for students and others living in the community and its adjoining areas.
“This community has done well for Nigeria, but we wonder why the NDDC would abandon projects in this community”, he said.
“We’ve a bridge awarded over a decade ago by the NDDC that has been abandoned in this community. It’s in a part of the community called Ewokiri.And there are also internal road projects abandoned here”, he added.

By: Ariwera Ibibo-Howells, Yenagoa