Oil spills: Niger Delta communities ‘get’ over N836bn in 7 years
In the last seven years, various courts have awarded the sum of N836.318bn (N98.318 billion and over $1.8billion) to oil-producing communities in Niger Delta.
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Sun Jul 11 2021
In the last seven years, various courts have awarded the sum of N836.318bn (N98.318 billion and over $1.8billion) to oil-producing communities in Niger Delta as compensations for oil spills and land encroachment, an independent data seen by Daily Trust on Sunday indicated.
Some of the court’s decisions are however being challenged at appellate level.
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The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in its determined efforts to reposition, and recreate its image, assembled stakeholders from the nine states that make up the region in Uyo.
The Niger Delta Development Commission has for some time now come under serious criticisms over alleged financial impropriety, poor performance and derailing from its mandate. Worried by this development, stakeholders recently held a workshop/retreat on how to reposition the interventionist agency, Okon Bassey reports
External and internal stakeholders of the nine Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) catchment states namely Edo, Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Abia, Imo and Ondo including government representatives recently met in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital to fashion a way on how to ensure the NDDC lives up to its mandate.
The three-day retreat held between April 15 to 17, 2021 at the Ibom Icon Hotel & Golf Resort and Watbridge Hotel and Suites all in Uyo was tagged “NDDC Strategic Capacity Building Workshop/Retreat”, and had as its theme: “Collaborating, Planning and Re-strategising for a better Niger Delta Region.”