NDDC MD assures of completion of all ongoing projects

Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr Nsima Ekere, has restated the commitment of the commission to the completion of all ongoing projects in the nine Niger Delta states.

He gave the assurance while speaking at the funeral service held in honour of Elder Inyang Willie Akpan, a one-time sole administrator of Southern Uruan Local Government Area and caretaker chairman of both Ikono and Obot Akara local councils, at Itu, Akwa Ibom State, on Saturday.
He also promised that the Interventionist agency would construct the Mbiabong-Mkpanobong-Itam Road in Itu Local Government Area by 2017.
“We shall send a team to carry out a survey of the road. We shall in the year 2017 construct the road in the memory of Elder Akpan. We will be glad if at the completion of the project the local government can name the road after him,” he said.
The NDDC chief executive however appealed to the people to continue to support the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and the other levels of government in the country, assuring that the policies of the Federal Government would soon bring the country out of recession.
He remarked that Itu and Ibiono local government areas benefited from many NDDC projects because they had a very vibrant member in the Senate for many years.
Mr Ekere, again, commiserated with the Akwa Ibom State government and families of the victims of the recent Reigners Bible Church building collapse in Uyo, the state.
“That tragedy affected the entire state. Our prayer is that this type of affliction will not arise a second time”, he said, as he prayed for the repose of the souls of the dead and God’s healing upon those who were at different hospitals with injuries sustained during the collapse