barikay: @poster< This thread is very annoying. Don't let me travel to my village to post pictures of abandon projects by NDDC oooo?

rozayx5: Demdem and agbameta always relish these kind of threads, but on threads where the Government does well they are found wanting, instead of them to offer solutions they are busy running around shouting retardeeen . Shows the opposition followers are the same with their leaders

IGBO-SON:
I think things like school blocks, rural roads and provision of boreholes; such things should have been left to the oil producing states and their 13% derivation! The NDDC should have focused its budget on massive world class projects like an inter-state rail system, seaports, 5-star tourist centres and Hospitals!

atlwireles:

I have to agree with you on this point. The NDDC and the Nigerdelta ministry need to sit down and figure out a game plan, to finance massive infrastructures, that cut through the entire states in the region. Schools, hospitals and farm projects should remain state functions.

atlwireles: All those calling for repealing and scraping the NDDC and the Nigerdelta ministry are wasting their time, that is not going to happen. I will like to see this two, merged together and restricted to only inter state projects. The region needs an improved waterway system. An inter state rail system. Not classrooms and markets buildings, that are suppose to be function of local governments and state governments.

DaLover: NDDC should be scrapped, no intervention agancy will ever achieve development of the niger delta, allow the communities to develop themselves, I wonder why we keep feeling our salvation lies in someone or some government.

DaLover:

it makes sence, but the question of how it is funded comes into play,

Demdem: [b]Throwing monies to problems every now and then does not necessary mean the problem will be solved.
So far, the ND region receives the most money than any other region currently.
Starting from states allocation to 13% derivation to huge interventions from NDDC, ministry of Niger delta and even oil companies interventions. Of cos not to forget the billions on amnesty and even undocumented monies.
The question is with all these interventions which is far more than any region currently what has the people got to showcase? Are they better of? Can we justify the amount spent on ND so far.
Let ND justify what has been given so far and see me in the fore front of those advocating for nothing less than 50%.
Money isn't the problem in ND, already there is abundance, the problem is their leaders.
Focus more on ur leaders who are by far ur greatest enemies than a distant FG.
The FG has been extremely fair to ND since 1999. That's a fact but has the people been fair to themselves? That should be the main question here.[/b]

atlwireles:

It will be quite unfair and factually untrue to say the region has not seen massive development in the last 10yrs. Remember the 13% derivation did not come into full force till 2003, the NDDC and Nigerdelta ministry stared receiving cash backed allocation in 2008. The Nigerdelta of 1999 and the Nigerdelta of 2013 is without and doubt not the same place. Those advocating for 50% minimum revenue is on the solid grounds of resource control. There's something call fiscal federalism and some of us want to see this principle applied in this country. I hope the day will come when states in Nigeria keep 87% of their vat taxes, Petroleum taxes, minerals royalties, payee taxes etc and remit 13% to Abuja. It should never be the other way round. Then people will have a reason to hold their local representative accountable, than this hybrid rubbish we have now.

Sam Edem, chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission, is accused of taking $6.8m (£3.4m) of state money.

He has been charged with theft and criminal conspiracy by a court who heard he spent millions on black magic.

Police allege in one ritual he burned millions of naira and rubbed the ash on his body. "We believe that this is money from the Nigerian government, money that should have been used to develop the Niger Delta," Police Commissioner Ali Amodu said