{"id":98912,"date":"2023-10-28T17:56:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T16:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/otti-appeals-to-nddc-to-save-abia-from-erosion-complete-abandoned-projects"},"modified":"2023-10-28T20:19:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T19:19:34","slug":"otti-appeals-to-nddc-to-save-abia-from-erosion-complete-abandoned-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/otti-appeals-to-nddc-to-save-abia-from-erosion-complete-abandoned-projects","title":{"rendered":"Otti appeals to NDDC to save Abia from erosion, complete abandoned projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, OFR, has appealed to the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to urgently intervene in controlling the erosion menace ravaging parts of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor made the call when he received the Managing Director of the NDDC, Sam Ogbuku and some Directors of the Commission in his office.<\/p>\n<p>Otti said, \u201cIn Abia, we have a lot of challenges, the major ones are in a few places like Aba, Umuahia, Isuikwuato and Umunneochi area \u2013 erosion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He informed the NDDC executives of how erosion in Ovom, a community in Aba, had cut a road into two, creating a massive gully that led to the collapse of buildings in the area,<\/p>\n<p>He said the Abia State government had already given an ultimatum to affected residents of the Ovom erosion site, to evacuate immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Otti begged the NDDC to save Abia State from erosion menace, by assisting the efforts of the state government in dealing with the problem.<\/p>\n<p>He used the occasion to inform the NDDC Managing Director and his team of the litany of abandoned projects in the state, urging the Commission to complete them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there are also a lot of abandoned projects. One of them is very close here and links this place to the Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Headquarters. As of the last time I passed there, my estimate is that it was about 60% completed. Somewhere along the line funding ceased,\u201d the Governor narrated.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to the NDDC to see to the completion of the projects otherwise all the work that had been done would amount to waste.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Otti who referred the visiting NDDC team to other abandoned projects in Aba, Arochukwu and Umuahia North, said the contractors were being owed.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, acknowledged the interventions by the NDDC in the state while expressing confidence in the capacity of Sam Ogbuku and his team to lead the NDDC to greater accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, OFR, has appealed to the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to urgently intervene in controlling the erosion menace ravaging parts of the state. 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