Governor Dickson of Bayelsa State
The Bayelsa Government on
Saturday renewed its commitment to develop all parts of the state despite
dwindling resources from the federation account.
Mr Lawrence Erujakpor,
the state Commissioner for Works, said this while conducting members of
Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) on a tour of projects in the state as part of
activities marking the 2015 All Editors Conference in Yenagoa.
The News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) reports that the monthly revenue of the state has nosedived from
N18 billion in 2012 to N9 billion by July 2015.
Erujakpor regretted that
the revenue drop had adversely affected the pace of construction activities,
but added that the government was judiciously deploying the available resources
to ensure value for money.
He explained that the
drop in revenue had compelled the government to shift the deadlines for most of
the ongoing projects adding that the rainy season had also caused some delays.
Erujakpor told the NGE
members that the state government was implementing a deliberate policy of
spreading development projects to all parts of the state to ensure even
development.
Some of the projects
sites visited include 3 star hotel projects , the N3.8 bn governor’s office
project, the golf course , multi-door court house, Music school and language
school.
Others are the medical
diagnostic complex, drug distribution mart , the cargo airport, Ogobiri bridge
and Ogbia-Nembe road, among others.
The editors also visited
the abandoned Oloibiri Oil Well 1 in Ogbia local government area.of the state
where oil was first struck by Shell Petroleum Development Company in 1956 in
commercial quantity.
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