I visited the village over the yuletide and this was what I saw there. I am still speechless and can't fathom how people have been impoverished to the extent of having nothing of modern infrastructure. It was a case of neglect and marginalisation rolled into one as the community cannot boast of a single modern facility. Everything is in dire need of a makeover. Investigations uncovered a consistent pattern of heartless and wanton abandonment of projects on the part of contractors and nonchalant attitude of government functionaries who are involved in a mutual conspiracy to ensure persistent exploitation of the local people.

The pitiable state of the only primary school in the community has led to two trends: first, parents now send their wards and children to the neighbouring Toru-Ndoro for both Primary and secondary education; second, the derelict nature of the primary school means children are sent home whenever there is a storm or it becomes uncomfortably breezy because the so-called new building is near collapsing. As if to rub salt into the community wound, both health facilities have collapsed as the only maternity home has no health official manning it and the building taken over by weeds, reptiles and other crawling. The solar street lights installed in the community some years ago have gone kaput due to lack of maintenance. The only tank put up since the 1980s has long become dysfunctional which forces the people to rely on the river which is home to all forms of waste products. This is a visible threat to healthy living and can lead to the outbreak of cholera.

Against this background, it has become pertinent and urgent to rescue this riverine community from neglect and repair and rebuild the meagre infrastructure to ease the suffering of the people. I feel they don't deserve it and should be paid more attention by both the Delta State Government, the Burutu Local Government, Senator James Manager whose community is not far from this community, as well as other representatives at local, state and federal levels.

The attached picture is the state of the primary school in the community and it is nothing short of an eyesore!

This is the abandoned old Egbondi Primary School building, the only primary school in the community!

A picture of the pitiable state of the only community healthcare facility

An inside view of classrooms!

Another classroom

A classroom

And they refer to themselves as 'oil people'

Staff Quarters

Another abandonee

A pretence at potable water supply

I supervised a project at Toru Ndoro some years ago (completed) and was deeply appalled by the level of poverty in that beautiful community which falls under Ekeremor in Bayelsa state. An Ekeremor with a prominent son like Heineken Lokpobiri who has held didn't government positions since the Alamieseigha tenure till now as junior minister of Agriculture but was baffled to find out as at then that an uncompleted school was his constituency project for the lga (?) which he later abandoned. Our niger delta leaders are indeed the biggest problems after the FG we have in that region.

The blame shouldn't go alone to the governor. What about the senator and reps representing the area? State assembly and local government chairman?

Most Niger Delta leaders are wickedly greedy and prefer to spend most of their time in Abuja, Lagos or Port Harcourt than in their villages.

RZArecta2:
I supervised a project at Toru Ndoro some years ago (completed) and was deeply appalled by the level of poverty in that beautiful community which falls under Ekeremor in Bayelsa state. An Ekeremor with a prominent son like Heineken Lokpobiri who has held didn't government positions since the Alamieseigha tenure till now as junior minister of Agriculture but was baffled to find out as at then that an uncompleted school was his constituency project for the lga (?) which he later abandoned. Our niger delta leaders are indeed the biggest problems after the FG we have in that region.

You are right. Our so-called leaders and elites constitute mostly the problem of the region. Most abandoned projects are handled by them like these ones above. They are used to living expensive lifestyle at the detriment of the local people.

In addition to the obvious neglect, Ndoro community has become a prey to armed robbers who attack it now and then. Three prominent youths of the community were killed yesterday while in the chase of armed robbers who made away with some speedboat engines. Three more sustained gunshot injuries and are in critical conditions in faraway hospitals, since the community does not even have facilities for primary healthcare, let alone a grave case of that nature. Unfortunately, the security agencies manning the waterways have not bothered to investigate and curb the reign of terror from such armed groups. They seem to specialise only in invading communities when violent conditions from such restive boys have gone beyond the power of the community to curtail. The Delta and Bayelsa state governments need to do more in the area of security along the Bulou Toru axis.

It may interest you to know that this community is located in James Manager's senatorial district and he and his cohorts are responsible for all those abandoned projects, a senator who is alleged to be handling 300 NDDC contracts and has been fully paid for 120 contracts. The wickedness of man knows no bounds!

Welrez:
It may interest you to know that this community is located in James Manager's senatorial district and he and his cohorts are responsible for all those abandoned projects, a senator who is alleged to be handling 300 NDDC contracts and has been fully paid for 120 contracts. The wickedness of man knows no bounds!

Una leaders are wicked and greedy....Case closed.

You hardly see any of una leaders living in their community.

Moreover they have boys at home for election..

They made hunger possible there and bend the people to their will.