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GOV DIRI URGES PANDEF TO FOCUS ON REGION’S DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has urged the leadership of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) to focus on issues that border on the region’s development. The Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Alabrah, stated in a press release that Senator Diri gave the admonition on Wednesday when a delegation of PANDEF led by its new chairman, Amb. Godknows Igali, paid him a courtesy visit in Government House, Yenagoa.

Diri expressed his administration’s commitment to collaborate with the forum to address issues of development bedevilling the Niger Delta region. He stressed that PANDEF needed the collaboration of governors of the region as well as interventionist agencies such as the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the proposed South South Development Commission in order for it to succeed. “PANDEF ought to play a key advocacy role in supporting the South-South Governors Forum,” Diri said.

He also stated that he had informed his counterparts in the South-South on the need to collaborate to establish a power project for the zone in order to attract investments. On his administration’s part, Diri highlighted efforts aimed at facilitating the procurement of an independent power plant to enhance socio-economic activities. He noted that the ongoing central senatorial road leading to Oporoma, headquarters of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, would be completed and inaugurated before the end of this year.

In his remarks, Chairman of PANDEF, Amb. Godknows Igali, affirmed the forum’s support to the South-South Governors Forum to help reposition the body to bring about development and address issues such as fiscal federalism. Alabrah stated that Amb. Igali congratulated Diri on his emergence as chairman of the South-South Governors Forum.

GOV DIRI URGES PANDEF TO FOCUS ON REGION’S DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

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