The Tide News
21 December 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan says the Federal Government is to take steps to ensure that the Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) are better focused to carry out their assignments.
The President made the statement at the State House on Monday, during an audience with Bishop Hyacinth Egbebo of the Catholic Vicarage of Bomadi in Delta.
He said action would also be taken to ensure greater cooperation, collaboration and coordination between the ministry and the NDDC in the interest of the people of the Niger Delta.
Jonathan said the NDDC board was recently dissolved and reconstituted because of institutional paralysis, caused by internal strife among members of the dissolved board.
He said that he expected the new leadership of the commission to be more committed to the implementation of developmental projects that would benefit the ordinary people of the Niger Delta, including residents of the Vicarage of Bomadi.
“Our approach will be different next year. We will make sure that the NDDC is better focused and does what is right for the people of the Niger Delta,” he said.
He also pledged that there would be enhanced monitoring of the Federal Government’s developmental agencies in the Niger
Our correspondent reports that Egbebo was accompanied by the Papal Nuncio to Nigeria
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