Akpabio to SSDC: You have a big responsibility to transform the region

By Henry Umoru, Abuja

President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has charged the recently inaugurated committee and absorption of the South South Development Commission (SSDC) to present tangible improvement projects that volition uplift the surviving standards of the radical of the South South region.

Speaking successful Abuja erstwhile the Commission’s enactment paid him a courtesy visit, Akpabio said the SSDC carries a “huge responsibility” to thrust inclusive growth, foster economical development, and align its programmes with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

According to a connection by his Special Assistant connected Media and Communication, Anietie Ekong, the Senate President said the constitution of the Commission marks a caller section successful the region’s developmental journey.

“The shot is present successful your tribunal to adhd worth to the South South portion done this improvement Commission,” Akpabio told the delegation.

“You person a batch of responsibilities to make the region. I privation you to cognize that it is not a bonanza; it is simply a telephone to service. It is simply a telephone to enactment connected your reasoning headdress to adhd worth to the system of the federation and to the Renewed Hope Agenda of the President who acceptable up this Commission.”

Akpabio commended President Tinubu for creating the SSDC, describing it arsenic “a well-deserved recognition” for a portion that has sustained Nigeria’s system for decades done its lipid and state resources.

He besides thanked members of the National Assembly for passing the SSDC Bill into instrumentality contempt archetypal concerns implicit overlap with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). He clarified that, dissimilar the NDDC, the SSDC’s mandate extends beyond oil-producing communities to screen the full South South region.

“We shall proceed to enactment you to afloat instrumentality disconnected and execute large projects that we volition travel to commission. You tin number connected me, my office, and my colleagues successful ensuring that you are adequately funded,” helium assured.

In his remarks, Prince Chibudom Nwuche, Chairman of the SSDC Board, expressed appreciation to President Tinubu, the Senate President, and the National Assembly for their roles successful birthing the Commission.

“Under my leadership, we shall faithfully execute the halfway mandate of this Commission. We volition enactment intimately with the Senate and different stakeholders, debar the mistakes of the past, and guarantee our radical consciousness the interaction of governance,” helium said.

Also speaking, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Usoro Akpabio, praised Senator Akpabio’s visionary enactment and promised that the Commission volition absorption connected some quality superior improvement and infrastructural renewal.

“Our extremity is to unlock the potentials and the stranded wealthiness of the South South people,” she said. “The SSDC volition service arsenic a exemplary for different improvement agencies successful Nigeria by driving sustainable, people-centered maturation and determination transformation.”

The sojourn marked the archetypal authoritative engagement betwixt the SSDC enactment and the Senate President since the Commission’s establishment.

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