Lagos — The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, has stressed the importance of engaging stakeholders to come up with strategies for economic growth and development in the Niger Delta region.
The NDDC Chief Executive Officer, in an interview with newsmen at the Commission’s headquarters in Port Harcourt, said: “The importance of stakeholder’s engagement is to ensure that projects and activities of government are well understood by the people to create room for synergy.”
Ogbuku disclosed that the Commission recently inaugurated five flagship projects, covering roads, bridges and electricity, across the region.
He listed the projects as follows: The 9km Obehie-Oke-Ikpe road in Ukwa West LGA, Abia State; the 25.7 kilometre Ogbia -Nembe Road in Bayelsa State; the 1×15MVA 33/11KV electricity injection substation in Amufi, Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area in Benin City, Edo State; the 45km double-circuit 33KV feeder line from Omotosho Power Station to Okitipupa, Ondo State and the NDDC 6km Iko-Atabrikang-Akata-Opulom-Ikot Inwang-Okoroutip-Iwochang Road and 600m Ibeno Bridge in Ibeno LGA, Akwa Ibom State.
