SPDC spends N2.2bn on CDBs in Bayelsa, Delta communities

Port Harcourt -- The Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, says it has injected over N2.2 billion into the southern swamp associated gas solution area for community development as top up funds for the Community Cluster Development Boards, CDBs, in Bayelsa and Delta states.

SPDC General Manager, External Relations, Mr igo Weli, stated this during the graduation and award ceremony for beneficiaries of the Shell's Enterprise

Development Programme in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State Capital.

Weli also disclosed that the oil firm has raised about 6,659 entrepreneurs from its gas fields in Bayelsa and Delta states alone from 2003 till date.

"SPDC has injected a total of N2.2billion into the Southern Swamp Associated Gas Solution area for community development as top up funds for the Community Cluster Development Boards in Bayelsa and Delta."

Represented by the Manager, External Relations, Mr Adebanjo Adekoya, Weli explained that the company decided to embarked on the scheme to provide alternative income and to divert the attention of the youths from restiveness.

Earlier, the facilitator, Centre for Infor mation and Development, Mrs Belema Obigwe, who facilitated the training, explained that 130 youths nominated for the scheme by their communities were shortlisted in April 2018.