The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) will expunge N200billion worth of projects from its books to reduce its project-carrying capacity to a manageable size.
\nChairman of NDDC Governing Board, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, stated this in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State at the weekend.
\nHe spoke when he led a team of the commission\u2019s board and management on a courtesy visit to Governor Seriake Dickson in Government House, Yenagoa.
\nNdoma-Egba, who lamented that the commission had too many projects in its books, said: \u201cIn the next couple of days, the NDDC will cancel about N200billion projects from our books.
\n\u201cWe need to reduce the projects we are handling to a manageable number that will make more impact.
\n\u201cWe are forging a new relationship with stakeholders in the region,\u201d he said.
\nHe added: \u201cThe new spirit of cooperation entails our not competing with the states and local governments.
\n\u201cTo deepen this new relationship, we have written to the President to re-activate the Advisory Committee and the Project Monitoring Committee.
\n\u201cWe need these two committees to be able to share our visions for the region and avoid duplication. We need the project Monitoring Committee to enable us earn the trust of our partners.\u201d
\nThe commission also disclosed that it had so far completed 233 projects in Bayelsa State valued at N38.8billion.
\nOther members of the NDDC delegation were the Managing Director, Nsima Ekere; the Executive Director, Projects, Samuel Adjogbe, the Bayelsa State representative on the NDDC board, Prof. Nelson Brambaifa, and other directors of the commission.
\nNdoma-Egba further pledged that the commission would complete the 25.7km Ogbia-Nembe Road being executed in conjunction with the Shell Petroleum Development Commission (SPDC) before the end of the year.
\n\u201cWe must finish and commission the Ogbia-Nembe Road. It is a commitment we must fulfill this year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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