Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has expressed its readiness to deploy the best technology to end the incessant sea incursion ravaging Ayetoro community in the Ilaje local government area of Ondo State.
The commission disclosed that it will soon address the disaster by putting in place infrastructure that will prevent the ocean surge from coming into the community.
The executive director of project (NDDC), Charles Ogunmola, disclosed this at the distribution of relief materials and assessment of the impact of sea incursion in the community on Thursday.
Ogunmola said “We have been on this journey for over 12 years, no solution. But I can confirm that in the future we are going to stop this ocean surge, we are going to protect lives and properties and we are going to give the people of Ayetoro the better life they deserve.
“The NDDC feels the pain and that is why we have to rush down here today to bring what we cancelled as phase one palliative and we will make sure that it reaches the affected community and we still have more palliative on the way.
“The next phase will be kind of introducing some settlement so that the people that have been displaced can have a roof over their head until they were able to rebuild, and for us pending, we will be able to address this sea incursion that uses happen.’’
Earlier, the director of the Ondo State Office of the NDDC, Salami Olaniyi Okogie said “We are gathered here to solidarise with what happened at Ayetoro, where the community was set off by the flood and the habitants had to relocate to some temporary places.
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