By Ochuko Akuopha

OLEH—ISOKO Development Union, IDU, yesterday, lamented the delay in project execution by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, urging   the Federal Government to call the commission’s board to order.

President General of IDU, Chief Iduh Amadhe, while addressing newsmen in Oleh, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, said several projects initiated by the commission to address the “age long neglect of the Isoko ethnic nationality have remained uncompleted”

Listing some of the abandoned projects to include the Uzere-Patani Road, completion and equipping of the Laboratory/Workshop in the Faculty of Engineering, Delta State University, Oleh Campus, Emevor-Orogun Road, among others, he said the “desire to ameliorate the Isoko people’s plight as a major oil producing nationality has been truncated”.

While blaming the problem of projects abandonment on alleged “internal crisis” in NDDC’s board, Amadhe said the commission had  advertised projects    on March 15, 2017, “but up till now, tender papers have not been opened.”

and the year is almost coming to an end.

“Consequent upon this, 16 projects allocated to Isoko nation in 2017 are not likely to see the light of the day. This is also to say that all oil producing communities in the Niger Delta region will be denied projects due to them this year because of this internal crisis.”