Speaking at the 2019 NDDC stakeholders forum for Delta state in Effurun, Uvwie council area of the state, the state Co-ordinator, Dr. Ogaga Ifowodo, disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari has given directive to facilitate payment of arrears amounting to N1.8 trillion owed the commission by the federal government.
He streesed that stakeholders seeing the commission as affiliated to political parties has led to disruption of several projects that should have benefited the people of the area. Earlier in his welcome address, Acting Managing Director of the NDDC, Prof Nelson Brambraiyefa, said there was need for all “to woo investors back” to Niger Delta.
The meeting had three plenaries presented by Col. Wilson Ijide , lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan, Dr. Philip Esavwede, Faculty of Law lecturer, Delta State University and Dr. Omonigho Otanocha, MD FUPRE Energy Solution Limited, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, respectively.
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