Imo Uzodinma decries marginalisation by NDDC

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Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, has decried what he calls marginalisation in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), appealing to the new leadership to revisit the original intention for setting up of the Commission.

He made the remarks on Friday when the Acting Managing Director of the NDDC, Eng. Emmanuel Audu-Ohwavborua led a team of his top management staff on a courtesy call to the Governor at Government House, Owerri.

During the visit, the Commission presented some drugs to the government which the Managing Director said were meant for designated hospitals in Imo State.

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Governor Uzodimma said over the years past NDDC leadership resorted to a maintenance approach to solving problems affecting the member states as opposed to projects conception and implementation, noting that from the Act establishing the Commission, so many things have been left unaccomplished.

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He regretted that even in the area of interventions, some of the states like Imo as a critical stakeholder in the oil and gas have not been treated fairly.

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For instance, the Governor noted that a typical example was during the Covid-19 pandemic era when the Commission was expected to come to the aid of the State, but it was nowhere to be seen notwithstanding that it featured prominently in other NDDC states.

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His words: “Go back to the original intention of setting up the Commission so that the impact will be felt by our people.

“We have observed marginalization inside marginalization. None of the oil producing states should be marginalised. We must get justice, we must get equity, we must get even distribution of amenities, address marginalisation inside the NDDC.

“Each time they say we are a member, why is intervention not coming to Imo State, but going to other states? Repair Elele to Owerri road and also repair the bad sections from Mgbidi to Awommama under your emergency programme.”

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