The House of Representatives has mandated the Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC to liaise with NDDC to investigate alleged mismanagement and abandonment of Amassoma Community Shoreline Protection Project in Bayelsa.
The resolution followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Ambaiowei Ebikebina, PDP-Bayelsa, during plenary in Abuja on Tuesday.
Recall that the Amassoma Reclamation/Shore Protection Project was awarded by the NNDC on June 10, 2019 to IDEKI Services Ltd.
Moving the motion, Ebikebina said that Amassoma in the Southern Ijaw Federal Constituency of Bayelsa is one of the communities that has persistently endured flooding, leading to the devastating flood in the area in 2022.
This, he said, sacked communities, created a huge humanitarian crisis, adding that the flood situation was heightened by climatic changes, making the situation increasingly unbearable.
He said the people of Amassoma and other areas within the Southern Ijaw federal constituency were at risk of facing another devastating flood and displacement from their homes.
He said that only immediate action would assuage and give comfort to the Southern Ijaw constituents and avert traumatic experiences of the past.
Adopting the motion, the House said such a shoreline project was a critical intervention project, adding that the previous companies must be held accountable for alleged waste of public funds.
The house urged the NDDC to re-mobilise a contractor to complete the Amassoma community shoreline protection project.
The house also urged the contractor to engage competent consultants to supervise the project and ensure that it was executed diligently to completion before September.
The House mandated the NDDC to assess the project to ascertain the extent of work done by the numerous contractors since the project was first awarded