Managing Director, Delta Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Mr Williams Makinde, has said the commission will focus on the completion of ongoing projects in the oil producing communities rather than embarking on new ones.

Makinde spoke while addressing newsmen in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta.

He said it would be unwise for the commission to award new projects in 2018 while most of the existing ones were yet to be completed.

“It will be of no use embarking on thousands of projects that will be abandoned later. We will definitely complete our centralised projects in 2018. Those that are 92 per cent, we will increase the funding in order to complete them. We don’t want to leave hundreds of projects hanging around uncompleted. The people should not expect a new project in 2018. However, the communities we have not visited before in our catchment areas, we will ensure we put in something,” he said.