The Niger Delta Development Commission on Wednesday pleaded with youth leaders in Abia State to be agents of change by protecting its projects across the state.
Speaking on the occasion tagged “Capacity Building Engagement: Community Ownership and Protection of NDDC Projects for Niger Delta Stakeholders” in Aba, the Director of the Abia State Office of NDDC, Dr Anderson Ukeh, said, “We observed that most of our projects have been vandalised.
“It is from the community, the youths. NDDC invited the youths to engage with them so that they would understand that the project belongs to them and have a different mindset.
“We are organising this programme so that they will understand that this project belongs to them and they have to take responsibility for ensuring that these projects are being protected.
“What we learned from them is that they need us to engage them. To be part of this. That is what we are doing. Engaging them so all of us are on the same page. So they will realise and understand that this project belongs to them”.
In his presentation, the NDDC facilitator, Ikechukwu Okereke, said that the worries of the NDDC are that the level of the vandalisation of the commission’s projects is alarming, revealing that the commission has over 19,421 projects scattered across the member states.
