Managing director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Samuel Ogbuku, has inspected projects in Oporoza, in Gbaramatu Kingdom of Warri South West local government area of Delta State.
Speaking during the visit, the NDDC boss said the commission was poised to improving the living conditions of the inhabitants of the region assuring that concerted efforts are being made to upgrade infrastructures across the region.
The visit afforded the NDDC boss and his team opportunity to assess some of projects executed by the commission, in the Kingdom.
It was learnt that in the days of militancy in the Niger Delta region, the mere mention of Oporoza or its neighbour Okerenkoko sets off palpitations in many hearts.
So, an inspection tour of projects executed by the NDDC in Oporoza and Ugborodo communities through the meandering creeks of the delta is not an assignment for the faint hearted.
While welcoming the NDDC team, an elated spokesman of Gbaramatu Kingdom, Chief Godspower Gbebekama, urged members of the team to feel at home in the island.
The kingdom is the homestead of the former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo.