By Henry Umoru

The senator representing Delta Central senatorial district, Senator Obaisi Omo-Agege, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate the activities of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, from its inception saying that the commission has failed the people of the Niger Delta region.

Omo-Agege

In an interview with Vanguard in Abuja, Senator Omo-Agege said that as an interventionist agency, the NDDC should have done more to ameliorate the plight of the people of the region rather than embark on the supply of “exercise books and pencils” to a few schools in the region in the name of intervention.

According to him, with the kind of resources at the disposal of the commission, what the people expect from it are “mega projects like the third mainland bridge in Lagos” to open up the hinterland of the region.

He said: “The NDDC has failed. The commission was meant to be an interventionist agency that would help ameliorate the condition of the people in the South South. It is supposed to bring development to the region. So much money has been appropriated but if you go round the creeks, if you go round the states of the Niger Delta, you won’t see the presence of NDDC. They are not doing anything.

“At the very best, you will see them providing boreholes and supplying exercise books and pencils to schools. That is not what an interventionist agency is meant to be. They are supposed to be executing mega projects that will be of benefit to the whole of the South South,” he said.

Explaining further, the senator who was recently sworn in following his victory at the election tribunal noted that “for instance, there would have been nothing wrong if something like the third mainland bridge was constructed between Warri and Gbaramatu.”