The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has restated the commitment of President Muhammadu Buhari administration to completing all abandoned projects in the nine states of the Niger Delta Region.
Akpabio spoke Sunday in Uyo after an inspection tour of the long-abandoned 1000-bed hostel blocks constructed by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for the University of Uyo, Uyo.
Located at the Main Campus of the institution at Nsukara Offot, Uyo, the three-storey building which started about 15 years ago, but was delayed for many reasons is almost 98 percent completed and ready for commissioning in the next couple of weeks.
The hostel has 500 bed spaces for males and 500 bed spaces for female undergraduates.
The Minister, who specifically praised President Muhammadu Buhari, for his massive support to the interventionist agency since assumption of office, reiterated NDDC’s commitment to the completion of the students’ hostel project was a directive from the President.
He stated that other abandoned, but life -touching projects in the Niger Delta region were now at various stages of completion and inauguration.
The Senator assured that the commission would continue to support educational development by creating conducive teaching and learning environment in educational institutions in the Niger Delta region.
In his remarks after the facility tour, the Interim Administrator of the NDDC, Effiong Akwa, thanked President Buhari for his moral and financial support to more abandoned projects in the region being completed and handed over to its beneficiaries.
“Let me place on records the support of our dear President to the Niger Delta region. He has handed a presidential directive through the minister, that we must ensure that all abandoned but viable projects in the region are completed and handed over to its direct beneficiaries, ” Akwa stated.
