Indigenes of eight Itsekiri communities in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State vis-à-vis Tisun, Kolokolo, Eghoro, Usor, Saghara, Ureju, Ugbo-Tosan and Aja-Metan, have decried the continued abandonment of Koko- Ogheyi -Lekki-Lagos Road, the 6km Tisun-Kolokolo Road and the Dredging-Canalization, Abiugborodo-Eghoro Link Road, the bridge expected to connect Benin River, the Ugborodo Shore Protection and Land Reclamation as well as the Orere Shore Protection and Land Reclamation projects by the Federal Government, “23 years after the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC was created.”
The Chairman of Tisun Management Council in Warri North Local Government, Comrade David Odeli, who condemned the neglect of the aforementioned projects in a statement made available to newsmen in Benin City, Edo State, Wednesday April 5, noted: “23years after the establishment of the NDDC, our communities are yet to benefit from critical infrastructural development in the Niger Delta.
“We call on the Federal Government, the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, other relevant government owned Ministries, Departments and Agencies as well as multinational oil and gas companies, prospecting in our area, to as a matter of urgency, address our basic development needs and endeavour to set machineries in motion for the immediate resumption of work on the abandoned projects, with a view to completing them in record time.”
Comrade David Odeli, who also lamented that: "Ugborodo, Orere and Deleghe Communities in Warri South-West Local Government Area, are also affected with the high level of neglect", added: "All the communities mentioned, are major oil and gas producing, yet to be given attention by President Muhammadu Buhari led administration and by extension, the NDDC and other relevant interventionist agencies.
" It will not be out of place for one to say that the Federal government and other relevant agencies, have failed our people. Life has become very difficult.
"Our communities are the major oil and gas bearing communities, which host several OML operations in the Niger Delta region.”
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