BY GABRIEL OKECHUKWU, FRCN PORT HARCOURT
The Managing Director Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku says management has taken a policy decision to complete abandoned projects of NDDC in Niger Delta region.
Dr. Ogbuku who made the assertion while inaugurating aquaculture training center in Umuntu Olokoro Umuahia promised to expand the center.
The managing Director, who insisted that agriculture is expedient to provide food supply and create employment opportunities, added that the commission would train fifty youths from the community in the trade.
While emphasizing the importance of collaboration with partners who are buying into NDDC programmes, the MD explained that the facility would be used to train Project HOPE beneficiaries.
In the same vein, Director Abia State Office, Dimgba Eruba who maintained that the project was meant to alleviate poverty, regretted that the facility faced theft and vandalism.
He advised the host communities to own the project and leverage on the opportunity.
Representative of the community, Chief Ifeanyi Umekwe who requested that youths be engaged to provide security coverage for the project, called on NDDC to construct internal roads within the community to facilitate development in the locality.
Chief Umekwe appreciated NDDC for citing the project in the area.
Other components of the project Include, eight fish ponds, two hatcheries, six room staff quarters, generator, bore hole, solar powered street light, lecture and office blocks.
Managing Director also paid a courtesy call on the Governor of Abia State, Dr. Alex Oti.
