New NEDC Board Embarks on Projects Inspection, Solicits Cooperation, Partnership with Bauchi Govt

Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi

The North East Development Commission (NEDC) has solicited the cooperation and partnership of the Bauchi State Government for a successful operation in the State and the region.

This was just as the Commission strongly warned contractors handling various projects across the sub-region against compromising contract specifications.
The Chairman of the Commission, Major General Paul Tarfa (rtd), said this when he led the newly reconstituted members of the NEDC Management Board on a familiarisation visit and projects inspection in Bauchi State weekend.

At the palace of the Emir of Bauchi, Dr. Rilwanu Suleiman Adamu in Bauchi, the NEDC Chairman said the reconstituted board of the commission was ready to continue its laudable projects, adding that this time around it would collaborate with relevant stakeholders in the state to embark on more projects that has direct bearing on the lives of the citizens of the state.

According to him, “We are in Bauchi in continuation of what we did in the last four years and to continue to see to the progress of how far our projects have gone with a view to seek more collaboration with the state government on what to do in this historic state.

“Our job is to see the projects that have been done and the ones that we are about to embark upon.
“We are here to move around the old projects with the hope that the contractors are on site and have done the right thing as well as to ensure that the ones we are about to start; we do the right thing.”

The Chairman of the Commission thanked the Emir for granting the board audience and prayed for the blessings of the emirate in the execution of all the activities of the board in the state.

Responding to the visit, the Emir of Bauchi, commended the Commission over all the interventions it carried out since its inception, saying that it was a stimulant to the development of the region.

“I must place it on record that the activities of the Commission towards the general well-being of the populace since its establishment cannot be over-emphasised being a stimulant to the development of the region.

“I feel this what made the authorities to consider you people in steering the affairs of this Commission once again,” he said.

However, at the proposed NEDC 300 Housing Units at Dungal community in Bauchi Local Government Area, the Commission expressed displeasure over what it observed as substandard work being done by the contractor handling the project.

The Board Chairman, Major General Paul Tarfa (retired) and Managing Director of the Commission, Alhaji Goni Alkali summoned the contractor to report to the Commission’s Headquarters in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital immediately.