Group Commend NDDC’s Efforts To Improve Work Environment
The Niger Delta Rights Advocates (NDRA), a prominent political pressure group in the Niger Delta region, has commended the Management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) under Dr. Samuel Ogbuku for transforming the agency’s Bayelsa State office.
The group disclosed that the office had struggled with poor working conditions and substandard work environments since its inception in 2000.
According to a statement by Dr Alozie Chucks, Director, Research & Evaluation, the new management has rewritten the narrative of neglect and inefficiency that previously plagued the office.
The group praised Dr. Ogbuku’s leadership for addressing critical needs such as staff accommodation and workspace challenges, which had taken up a significant portion of the agency’s yearly budget.
He noted that the improved work environment is expected to boost productivity and innovative thinking among staff, ultimately leading to better service delivery to the grassroots.
He added that for over six decades, the Niger Delta region has suffered from oil exploitation and exploration without reaping the benefits.
However, he noted that the NDDC management must, going forward, block all avenues for leakages within their system and ensure monies meant for our people goes into significantly improving the lives and livelihood of our people.
He said: “Twenty-five years down the line, the NDDC should not find itself in certain conditions opposite of what an interventionist agency should be. NDDC must not be a case of a doctor that cannot heal himself.
“With the completion of an ultramodern office complex, staff quarters together with a clinic billed for commissioning on June 17 2025 in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, we charge the Ogbuku led management to not rest on its oars by ensuring staff welfare continues to earn priority attention.”
He added: “Our stand as far as the region’s development interest is concerned, remains that the Commission serves as a single purpose vehicle for driving responsible, responsive and accountable infrastructural changes capable of lifting the rural poor out of decades of poverty while remediating our immediate environment for future generations to live and survive on.
“To this end, cost saving measures should be adopted to end the era where funds meant for regional development are diverted into private pockets and corruption becomes the trademark of an Agency that should supposedly, meet the yearnings of twenty-seven (27) Senatorial districts in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
Group Commend NDDC’s Efforts To Improve Work Environment is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
