Utibe Ekoson
President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded names of members of the new substantive Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to the Senate for screening.The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Umana Okon Umana, disclosed this yesterday when he was led by the acting Managing Director, NDDC, Emmanuel Audu, to the Ahoada axis of the road in Rivers State, which had been completely washed away by the flood.He said currently about 31 states were affected by the flood, noting that the Federal Government was responding adequately to the natural disaster.Umana who was accompanied by the directors of the commission and officials of his ministry, expressed shock at the level of devastation on the road especially at Ihieke, a community in Ahoada. He ordered the Commission to provide relief materials for all persons displaced by the flood in the region, saying such intervention must be comprehensive.