By Jimitota Onoyume

Chairman, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr. Chiedu Ebie has inspected some ongoing projects of the commission he attracted to Ika Federal Constituency , assuring that the Commission will always put the people first.

Media aide to the Chairman , Mr Jerome Utomi in a statement to newsmen said the projects include: the equipped ICT centre at the Faculty of Law, University of Delta (UNIDEL), Agbor, with modern computers and state of the art infotech equipment, the first phase of the failed portion of Umunede/Umutu road at Owa-Alidinma , Ika North-East Local Government Area of Delta state, among others.

The statement said at the university Ebie expressed satisfaction with the completed work at the ICT Centre in the faculty law , promising that the university would continue to enjoy attention from the commission.

Ebie also enjoined management of the institution to sustain the high quality of education.

Earlier Vice Chancellor of the university Professor Stella Chinyere Chiemeke, who led other principal staff of the school to receive the NDDC’s Chief thanked the commission for the project..

Professor Chiemeke specifically thanked Ebie for his good work, and lauded his huge intervention projects through the NDDC.

“I have acknowledged your huge intervention projects through the NDDC in my speech delivered on the just concluded 4th Founder’s Day of the institution. We will continue to thank you, and as Oliver Twist asks for more’’.

“For now, you have done enough for the Faculty of Law. I will appeal that you come to our aid in other areas such as providing the institution with buses. We are very proud of you and your outstanding leadership quality at the NDDC. This is a testament to your track records”, the V.C. noted.

It would be recalled that last year at the second Founders Day celebration and fundraising for Ika Language and Cultural Research Centre of the university , Ebie instituted a yearly award for the best graduating medical student at the University of Delta (UNIDEL), Agbor, Delta State, adding that the award by the family which would be reviewed after five years was in honour of his father, the pioneer Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Benin Teaching hospitals (UBTH), late Professor John Ebie..

Ebie and his entourage later moved to inspect the first phase of construction of a failed portion of Umunede/Umutu Road by Pan Ocean Flow station, Owa-Alidinma.

Speaking at the construction site, the NDDC boss appealed to the contractor to deliver top quality job to properly check flooding ravaging the area.

He said the remedial work will continue through the long stretch of the road down to Ute Erumu where another major part of the road collapsed.

It would be recalled that under NDDC’s ‘’Light Up Niger Delta Programme’’ Mr. Ebie attracted solar street lights to Ika Federal constituency , a move that boosted economic and social activities.