 The Niger Delta Development Commission has laid a total of 2.2 trillion Naira budgets before the House of Representatives on Thursday. The budget will cover the year 2021, 2022 and 2023 to take care of years that the Commission operated without a board. Before laying down the budget before the committee, its chairman, Honourable Tungio Jo, reminded the managing director and members of the board present that it is the desire of the committee that whatever budget is presented must be debt that takes the general interest of the people of the region into consideration. The role of NDDC is not just to provide Sukho, but the role of NDDC is to provide sustainability, to provide development and to reshape the destiny of the Niger Delta region. I sincerely hope and I pray because this is your first budget as a board that under this board you will go back, update your Niger Delta Development Plan and implement critical projects that will add value to the lives of our people. The people of Niger Delta, they are in need of hope, renewed hope. In response, the managing director of C of the Commission acknowledged the cooperation received from the committee since the new management took over despite making lots of distinctional situations which have since been corrected. Capital expenditure performance, greater portion of Commission's available financial resources were directed to completion of critical infrastructure under emergency gravitation of railroads in the Niger Delta and clearing of waterways in ecological sector. In view of this, a total of 129 billion was paid on the preventive projects programs in the fiscal year which elapsed March 31st 2021, putting the performance at 32%. That was established to bring Sukho to the people of the region and we expect nothing short of that. So we have told them this is a budget of renewed hope. It has to bring back hope for the people of the region. So we want to see viable projects. We don't want to see monkey box projects. We want to see viable projects that we as a people can be proud of. We want to see regional projects. We want to see fantastic projects. We as a people of Niger Delta must do things right and I think they've heard that very clearly from us but as lawmakers, we will not fail in our oversight. We'll make sure they must be accountable for every last penny and the money must work for the people of the region. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.