A chieftain of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has
released 30 points that he said stand President Muhammadu Buhari out as someone
with equal regard as a Niger Delta son.
In a statement issued on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, Eze noted that unveiling those
interventions by the APC administration was to correct the impression in some
quarters that President Buhari had done nothing to improve the region.
Eze also maintained that a leader
like the Transportation Minister, Chibuike Amaechi will not sit and watch what
happened to the APC members in 2014/2015 when they were allegedly killed like
goats to be replicated again in 2019.
Eze listed the approval by the President
to begin refund of N1.3 trillion to the Niger Delta Development Commission
(NDDC), 44 modular refinery licenses, Maritime University, Transport University
in Ubima (Rivers State), Historic Bonny Road, as major ones.
He wrote:
1. Siting and construction of the
Federal University of Transportation in Ubima, Ikwerre council area of the
state: The University to be built by China Civil and Construction Company
(CCECC) is part of the federal government’s efforts to develop qualified
manpower that will manage the many railways facilities across the country and
other transportation facilities. Apart from the University of Transportation in
Rivers State, a similar university had earlier been approved to be sited at
Daura, Kastina state.
2. Completion and commissioning
of the International Wing of the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa in
Rivers State.
3. Construction of an industrial
park, which benefits from start to completion and inauguration, would be
enormous to Rivers state and her people, to be sited on 10,000 acres of land on
which the complex, an envisaged city on its own, would stand.
4. The Federal Executive Council
(FEC) approval of contracts of N47Bn for road projects in the country,
including redesigning and reconstruction of the Aba/Port-Harcourt section of
the Enugu/Port-Harcourt Expressway
5. Dredging of Port Harcourt
Seaport and provision of navigational aids for Escravos, at the sum of N13Bn.
6. Commencement of the
implementation of the Ogoni clean-up exercise and the execution of the
multi-billion naira Bodo/Ogoni-Bonny Road project, which when completed “would
open up the economic potentials of the Niger Delta region beyond the shores of
Nigeria, all in Rivers state”.
7. President Muhammadu Buhari’s
administration has started the release of over one trillion naira owed the
Niger Delta Development Corporation (NDDC) by previous federal administrations,
including the administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, to assist the body
complete most of its projects in Rivers state and other states in the Niger
Delta region.
8. Rivers State benefited from
the unprecedented allocation of over N125Bn out of the N8.612 trillion
appropriation bill presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, November
7, 2017 to the National Assembly to fund capital projects in 2018 in the Niger
Delta region.
9. Rivers State benefited from
the N53.89Bn earmarked for the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and N71.2
billion for NDDC for capital projects, also to benefit from the budgetary
allocation for the Niger Delta Amnesty programme retained at N65Bn, with the budgetary
allocation of N17.32 billion earmarked for the completion of the East-West
Road.
10. Rivers State benefited from
the Maritime University located at Okerenkoko in Delta State, with N5 billion
budgeted in the 2018 budget for its formal take off. This is a University aimed
to assist in the development and emancipation of the Niger Delta region.
11. To demonstrate the
seriousness over the full implementation of the Ogoni clean-up exercise and the
execution of the multi-billion naira Bodo/Ogoni-Bonny road project, budgetary
provisions were all made in the 2018 budget, which when completed, would open
up the economic potential of the Niger Delta region beyond the shores of
Nigeria, all in Rivers state.
12. The APC-led federal
government, apart from the above-named projects, embarked upon the following
projects: the Calabar-Lagos Rail Line that cuts across Rivers state, the
renovation/reconstruction of both Enugu-Port Harcourt Road and the West-East
Road, the renovation of the Afam Power plant in Rivers State, resumption and
reconstruction of the Enugu-Port Harcourt rail line, etc. All these projects
were abandoned by PDP governments. It also includes appointment of sons and
daughters of the region into key and crucial ministries and agencies.
13. PMB’s administration also
ensured that indigenes of the region are placed on full academic scholarships
so that they can have access to quality education with monthly stipends.
14. Under PMB’s administration,
approvals for the establishment of modular refineries across the nine states of
the Niger-Delta and a total of 38 licenses have been issued, covering
high-scale refineries of 50,000 to 250,000 barrels per day.
15. About 10 of the modular
refineries have secured their permit to construct and two of these 10
refineries are already under construction, and were completed by the end of
2018 under the Buhari-led administration.
16. The Buhari-led administration
has ensured the resumption of construction works on abandoned projects awarded
to different contractors across the Niger-Delta since 2006, including the
all-important East-West Road.
17. The President Muhammadu
Buhari administration set up the presidential initiative to boost agriculture
and industry in the nine states of the Niger-Delta and Enugu, an initiative to
revamp moribund industries in the region and to also inject new life into the
agricultural sector.
18. The Buhari-led administration
has completed six cassava processing plants in Bayelsa, Rivers, Abia, Ondo,
Cross River and Imo states.
19. Under the President Buhari
administration, more than 700 youths and women have acquired skills in
different areas of business, trade and craft.
20. Also, 130 youths in the Niger
Delta were trained on poultry, aquaculture, crop production and were given N1
million naira each by the Buhari-led administration.
21. In the Niger-Delta region 214
women who specialize in poultry and snail production were given between
N350,000 to N500,000 each by the Buhari-led administration.
22. Another 198 women and youths
in the Niger-Delta region were trained on ICT & business hub, poultry &
fish production under PMB’s administration.
23. Still, 60 youths from the
Niger-Delta region were trained on assemblage and repair of phones under President
Buhari’s administration.
24. Under PMB’s administration,
no fewer than 275 youths in the Niger-Delta region have benefited from the
Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) and its joint venture agro skills acquisition
through the Green Rivers Project Scheme.
25. The Vice president, Prof.
Yemi Osinbajo paid a visit to the Niger Delta region where he met with their
elders and engaged them in discussions that restored peace to the region.
26 Under President Buhari’s
Administration, the abandoned AKK pipeline that will enable delivery of gas
from the south into the north and open up gas delivery to homes was repaired
and restored.
27. PMB’s Administration was able
to work with the Niger-Delta leaders hence, the PANDEF group was set up which
makes it easy to have a body that could engage the federal government.
28. The Buhari-led administration
came up with the Nigerian Gas Flare Commercialization Programme aimed at
addressing the exit of gas flaring in the Niger Delta region.
29. President Buhari’s Administration
has put up a framework for community-based participation in the protection of
oil and gas pipelines, and oil and gas assets in the Niger Delta region.
30. Key appointments to sons and
daughters from the region.
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