Here is one I have not seen before.
From : Peter Kasali <Peterkasali@nddc.org>
Reply-To : pkasali@excite.com
Sent : Wednesday, November 15, 2006 3:13 PM
Subject : Technical Partnership Agreement
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Attachment : NDDCPROFILE.pdf (0.13 MB)
Technical Partnership Agreement
The Niger Delta Development commission (NDDC), requires the services of foreign
consultants in an oil and environmental related contractual transaction worth
close to $20.5m
I am writing to inquire if you or your firm can participate and play the role of
a foreign technical partner in the capacity of a foreign consultant on an agreed
terms.
If you are interested, then send us your company profile for us to study after
which I will furnish you with full details of the planned road map to a
successful participation.
You need not worry if you have never carried out any similar contract in the
past as this would be taken care of by us and your physical presence here is
optional.
You can call +234 803 416 1980 for more information.
Sincerely,
Chief Peter Kasali
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Here is the company profile study minus the map.
NDDC: A PROFILE
The Niger Delta region – the oil rich region that produces Nigeria’s main revenue earner – got a solemn pledge from candidate Olusegun Obasanjo as he campaigned for election in 1999.
At most campaign stops around the region, Obasanjo promised that if he was elected, he would ‘‘seek immediate solutions that would bring enduring peace and progress to the people of the Niger Delta.”
He was elected and sworn in as President on 29th May of the same year. Forty-eight days later, he made good his promise by drafting and sending to the National Assembly what was known as the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) bill.
According to him, ‘’the NDDC has the potential to offer a lasting solution to the socio-economic difficulties of the Niger Delta which successive government have grappled with even before independence’’.
His optimism was borne out of the fact that before the return to democratic rule in Nigeria in 1999, this was a region that was devoid of any meaningful infrastructure development, an abused ecology, a disillusioned citizenry that often resorted to violence to express their discontent resulting in instability and generally giving the region an atmosphere of perpetual crisis.
After a long delay in the legislature, the NDDC was finally born in 2000 with a clear mandate to:
‘’facilitate the rapid, even and sustainable development of the Niger Delta into a region that is economically prosperous, socially stable, ecologically regenerative and politically peaceful’’.
Inaugurating the pioneer board of the Commission in December 2000, President Obasanjo provided further insight into his vision for the Commission saying that;
• The NDDC is about a regional development programme
• It is also an agency and one of the stakeholders in the development of the Niger Delta region
• Its activities do not preclude other Federal Government development programmes that are normally due to the states;
• It is not intended to inhibit local initiatives that are the normal responsibilities of state governments, local governments or local communities.
• Specifically, the NDDC is not to take over the constitutional responsibilities of other tiers of government in the region.
To achieve its mandate, the NDDC board identified its areas of focus to include:
• Development of social and physical infrastructures
• Technology
• Economic revival and prosperity
• Ecological/environmental remediation and stability
• Human development
• Pursuit of a peaceful environment under which tourism will thrive and a buoyant culture will be facilitated.
As a development agency, it identified early the need for a Master Plan as part of its overall strategy. The Master Plan, for which satellite mapping had been completed and the resource consultants appointed, is expected to cover the following areas:
1. Demography
2. Environment and hydrology
3. Agriculture and aquaculture (with focus on economic activities)
4. Biodiversity
5. Transport (infrastructure)
6. Rural, urban, regional planning and housing
7. Community Development
8. Governance and capacity development
9. Education
10. Health
11. Small and medium enterprises
12. Water supply
13. Energy (electricity)
14. Telecommunication
15. Vocational training (with focus on employment generation)
16. Waste management and sanitation
17. Large-scale industry
18. Solid minerals
19. Tourism
20. Social welfare
21. Arts, Sports and Culture,
22. Women and Youth employment
23. Conflict prevention
24. Financial instruments and access, and
25. Investment promotion
In the interim however, the NDDC board have enunciated a plan of constructing roads and bridges, shoreline protection, rural and urban water supply schemes, rehabilitation of schools
And health centres.
This is in addition to the provision of free medical services in rural communities, 500 capacity students hostels in one university in each of the states in the region and human capacity development in new skills centres for skills acquisition and sustainable livelihoods.
By November 2002, the board reported awarding contracts for more than 650 projects worth over N35 billion in the nine states that make up the region.
The NDDC funding structure enunciated in its enabling law provides for contributions by the Federal Government, the oil companies operating in the region, the Ecological fund and member states in the region. The Federal government has so far accounted for 78.03 per cent of the over N44 billion disbursed to the commission between 2001 to date.
It is worthy of note that despite the commission being touted as a partnership for development in the region, member states are yet to contribute directly to the commission.
An amendment to the Act setting up the commission, which will compel member states to contribute 10 per cent of their monthly statutory allocation to the commission, is also yet to be attended to.
See also www.nddconline.org |
