The State House of Assembly Committee on Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) has pledged to push for speedy development of oil and gq I’ve got yes I feel cool a good bearing communities in the state.
Chairman of the Committee, Hon Austin Uroye, made the pledge during an interactive session with members of the Board of the Commission at the Assembly Complex in Asaba, the state capital.
Uroye, who represents Warri South Constituency 1 in the Assembly, stated that the mandate of DESOPADEC as an interventionist agency with particular attention on Oil and Gas producing communities must be realized.
The Lawmaker explained that the Committee’s strategic engagement with members of the Board was to identify areas of collaboration for DESOPADEC to succeed in the task ahead of it.
Uroye charged the DESOPADEC officials, led by the Chairman, Hon John Nani and Managing Director, Chief Festus Ochonogor, to strive to put smiles on the faces of the people for whose interest the Commission was established.
He acknowledged the challenges faced as a result of lots of issues deserving attention in DESOPADEC’s mandate areas, and emphasized the need for the Commission to ensure peace, stability and progress in the communities.
The Committee Chairman charged the Board to always respect rules of engagement and never compromise standards in execution of projects.
Other members of the Committee who spoke, including Ferguson Onwo, Fred Martins, and Oloye Pereotu, acknowledged the need for effective collaboration with relevant stakeholders in the award and execution of projects by DESOPADEC.
They raised the issue of abandonment of some projects awarded by the Commission and stressed the need to have them completed, just as they called for transparency and accountability in the affairs of the Commission.
They assured of the Committee‘s preparedness to facilitate early passage of the Commission’s budget, and charged the Board to up their game at ameliorating the challenge of under development in oil producing communities.
Briefing the Committee members on the journey so far, the Chairman of the Board, Hon John Nani and Managing Director, Chief Festus Ochonogor, said the Commission had ensured that the core mandate of positively touching lives in oil bearing communities was carried out despite the enormous challenges.
They commended the syHinergy with the House Committee on DESOPADEC, saying that such collaboration would further promote development in the Commission’s mandate areas.
Nani and Ochonogor explained that the budget of the Commission must pass through the scrutiny of the State Assembly, saying that the Commission would only implement the budget as approved by the House.
The Chairman and Managing Director commended the interactive meeting, which they said would was for the good of oil and gas bearing communities.
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