By Odeya Ogbetuo(Warri)
The Chief Executive Officer of Delta Project Energy Solutions Limited, Mr. Karo–Brown has commended the National Assembly for the confirmation of Ms. Lauretta Onochie as Chairman, Chief Dr. Samuel Ibukun as Managing Director and others into the Board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
Mr. Karo-Brown made this commendation in Effurun in Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State recently. He said the list of nominees submitted to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari was intended to ensure and enhance better performance of NDDC to serve Niger Deltans..
The COE of Delta Project Energy Solutions Limited, said there is no provision in the NDDC Act that subjects the President to take order from anyone, not even from agitators or groups in whatever name or association before he can nominate and appoint a person into the NDDC’ Board.
He said:”The National Assembly has done the right thing by not delaying the confirmation of the Board members because, the absence of the Board has put Niger Delta Region behind in terms of infrastructural development and soft-skills gap among our teeming youths. We need a Board that will key into the energy, soft-skills and infrastructure void in the Niger Delta Region”.
Karo-Brown said that the teeming youths need good paying jobs saying, with Ms Lauretta Onochie and Chief Dr. Samuel Ibukun directing the affairs of NDDC in the next 4 years, they will initiate Board’s policies, programmes and projects that will set a standard for the youths to be self-employed through entrepreneurship, soft-skills technologies, working remotely from home and field with Fifth Generation Network (5G), laptops and phones.
The COE of Delta Project Energy Solutions Limited, opined that what Nigerians need now is to cooperate with the newly confirmed members of the Board by the National Assembly and get the Board reconstituted, adding that, it is the turn of Delta State to produce the Chairman of the Board and put behind the parochialism of promoting one’s personal interest against the general interest of Delta State.