By Simon Ebegbulem

BENIN—GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has assured that the Niger Delta region will benefit immensely from the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Speaking during the visit of the Chairman of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Senator Bassey Ewa-Henshaw, who led other members of the board including the Managing Director and CEO, Mr Bassey Dan-Abia, to his office, Oshiomhole said that events of the past few years had shown that the friends of the Niger Delta were not necessarily from the region.

He said: “I am aware that the board has initiated a number of projects and according to you, you have over 1,000 of them valued at over a trillion naira. These are huge numbers. The expectations of the people of the Niger Delta are very high as they expect that the intervention agency would find resources to address their critical needs.

“I also know that the board has been afflicted by critical Nigerian diseases, namely: clarity of ideas and the need to take extra-ordinary measures.

“The law is specifically clear as to how NDDC should be funded and all that is expected is that the Federal Ministry of Finance or to be more specific, the Federal Government to ensure that the law they had passed and signed which is in operation is enforced to the letter so that they in turn can compel the board to ensure that the fund is judiciously expended.”