By Nelson Utip
The House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) have been mandated to liaise with NDDC to probe alleged mismanagement and abandonment of Amassoma Community Shoreline Protection Project in Bayelsa State.
This follows the adoption of a motion moved by Ambaiowei Ebikebina (PDP-Bayelsa), during plenary in Abuja recently, It would be recalled that the Amassoma Reclamation/Shore Protection Project was awarded by the NDDC on June 10, 2019 to a contractor,IDEKI Services Ltd, according to him, Amassoma in Southern Ijaw Federal Constituency of Bayelsa was one of the communities that had been persistently ravaged by flood, the climax being the 2022 devastating flood in the area which sacked communities, creating huge humanitarian crisis.
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He added that the flood situation was heightened by climatic changes, making the situation increasingly unbearable.
The people of Amassoma and other areas within Southern Ijaw federal constituency were at risk of facing another devastating flood and displacement from their homes said The Lawmaker who posits that only an immediate action would arrest the situation and give comfort to the Southern Ijaw people and avert the trauma experienced by the constituents in the past.
The House said such shoreline project was a critical intervention project while adopting the motion , it added that the previous companies must be held accountable for alleged waste of public funds.
The house therefore urged the NDDC to re-mobilise a contractor to complete the Amassoma community shoreline protection project, urging the contractor to engage competent consultants to supervise the project and ensure that it was executed diligently and complete it before September.
NDDC was mandated to assess the project to ascertain the extent of work done by previous contractors who were awarded contract for the project.
