Okorocha To NDDC: You Have Failed In Imo State

BY GRACE IGWEANYI

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has said the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has failed in Imo State.

“The NDDC has not done well in Imo state. If there is any state that has not benefited from NDDC programmes, it is Imo state. We are worst for it.

"There is no single project completed by NDDC in Imo State, except for boreholes and renovation of classrooms. Something has to be done and urgently too in Imo by the Commission to give the state, a sense of belonging,” Okorocha told visiting Senate Committee on NDDC led by its Chairman, Senator Peter Nwaboshi
 The Imo State Governor who received the NDDC Senate Committee at Government House, Owerri, charged the committee to critically look into what he called “the gross marginalization of the state by the Commission and take steps to ensure that the anomaly is corrected in the new dispensation.”

He commended the senate committee for asking for government’s input before the passage of the NDDC budget, stressing that the Owerri/Okigwe Road is a death trap because of its narrow nature and a federal road.

 He said“The NDDC can do that road. The road linking the Imo Industrial park and the one to Oguta Lake can be taken up also. I want to advise the NDDC to think of one unique project that will touch the lives of the nine NDDC states like railway or power.

Earlier, Senator Nwaoboshi told Okorocha that they are in the State on a fact finding mission to enable them carry out evaluation of NDDC jobs from 2000 till date and also find out if the activities of the NDDC has impacted positively on the people in NDDC States.