Following the flooding challenge witnessed in the Niger Delta region every year, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has said it will partner with the United Nations Satellite Centre to find a lasting solution.
The NDDC Managing Director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, said this while speaking during a virtual presentation on ways of combating flood challenges in the Niger Delta by a technical team of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research at the Commission’s headquarters in Port Harcourt.
This was contained in a statement issued by the NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Dr Ibitoye Abosede, in Port Harcourt on Wednesday.
Ogbuku charged the centre to proffer long-term solutions to environmental challenges such as flooding facing the Niger Delta region.
He noted that temporary solutions were not sustainable and had become a drain pipe on the resources of the Federal Government and its agencies.
According to him, “We are open to partnership in finding a lasting solution to the perennial flood in our region. As an interventionist agency, we are looking at solving the problems of the Niger Delta region permanently rather than treating the symptoms.”
Reacting to the proposition from UNITAR to train and certify youths of the region in seafaring, Ogbuku said, “We are willing to partner with you on training seafarers. At NDDC, our focus is not just building physical infrastructures but also developing human capital.”
Earlier, the former Country Representative of UNITAR, Dr. Larry Boms, said, “We propose to train Niger Delta youths in seafaring. German ship owners have offered to train the youths for one year to enable them get their seafaring certifications.”
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