Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Uguru on Tuesday said they have received a draft report for 2017 to 2019 work plan that would guide the activities and programme of the ministry.
Usani, who made this known at the third quarterly meeting with governors of the nine states of the Niger Delta with executives of international oil companies in the region, said the report by the technical committee would not only help them to know what to do but how they will do it, where they will do it and who will do it.
Usani said whatever they put in serves as input to the response which the government is given to the demand of the people of the region.
“People should not wave the work plan aside because there is master plan and action plan but here we say working plan and the intent of this is to establish what to be done, where and by who? Of course, the engagement period between 2017 and 2019 so, within these two years we want to access our performance and by international oil companies, local oil companies and agencies of development in the region so that we can juxtaposition our performance against the set objectives and set goals. This will enable us to see at a glance what everybody is doing.”
The minister said the meeting platform was established in line with the responsibility of the ministry to coordinate development programmes and affairs of the Niger Delta Affairs with all parties carrying out developmental projects while adding that the essence is to see that whatever any party is doing in terms of developing the region, every other party knows and that will then be the basis for the formulation for everybody to be sure they eliminate duplication thus waste of resources.
