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-------------YENAGOA


27/9/2016


"Our istration have tried, we have integrated all the interior communities into the national grid, from Sagbama down to Southern Ijaw to Ekeremor and Ogbia and power has improved drastically under our istration."

- His Excellency Henry Seriake Dickson at the event of the Bayelsa State Governorship Debate (28/11/2015)

As Bayelsa clocks 20, there is need to access critically, Bayelsa state power sector under the Dickson Seriake Henry istration.

The power sector yet another celebration of mediocre achievement by the Restoration istration.

I have refused to let the mood of the Bayelsa state celebration becloud my sense of judgement and reasoning like many.

It was the Marxist who postulates that “in the grip of political psychosis, truth, reason and common reason give way to instinct, ion and emotions”. The above statement coming from the Governor in the wake of the 2015, December 5 election is a pungent indictment that his istration is a failed one in respect to power supply in the state. It was also a sad apriori that the sector was omitted in the second term agenda of the Occupier of CREEK HEAVEN.

The Governor was quick to forget that the microphone he used in taking advantage of Bayelsans credulity was possible because it was powered by a generator plant and not government's electric power, solar or mill power.

Poor electricity supply has cost the state a lot. Large and small scale businesses have closed shops. The polythene industry has gone moribund. Grave power deficit and cost of alternative power sources, ed for relocation of few industries that came to the state during the twilight of Alamieyeseigha's istration.

Five years after giving Governor Dickson our mandate, Bayelsans are still paying for darkness courtesy, the national grid.

Every Nigerian state, Local Government or community is expected to be connected to the National grid, but where need be as an Oil producing state, the need to liase with corporate bodies such as Shell, Agip, Texaco etc that are domiciled in Bayelsa state to convert the flaring gas electricity as an alternative for the benefit of the masses for the state where all communities are expected to benefit, for example the Kolo Creek gas turbine, an initiative of Chief Melford Okilo supplied light in the whole of Ogbia, Southern Ijaw, Yenagoa and some parts of Sagbama Local Government Areas without necessarily connecting them to the national grid is an epitome of good government.

However, this noble project is seemed to be abandoned by the present istration and has kept the erstwhile benefiting communities to perpetual darkness.

We cannot overemphasize the importance of electricity (power supply) and the impact it can have in boosting our economy.

Bayelsa state is paying an exorbitant amount in electricity taxation without necessarily getting the dividends of such nefarious taxation.

One sad commentary about our current istration experience is the wanton glorification of responsibility and irresponsibility as dividends of democracy.

In saner climes, the performance of a Leader’s statutory obligations and constitutional functions such as Staff welfare, Community welfare and Institutional strengthening do not constitute achievements (or giant strides as we say here). It is a Leader’s capacity to craft and fashion out a vision that will manifestly translate into the total liberation of his subjects from the interlocking clutches of poverty, socio-economic exploitation, geo-political domination, ethno-cultural dislocation as well as a neo-fascist enslavement implanted by past years of myopic and tyrannical leadership (the Bayelsa story for the past nineteen years) that constitute what is known as achievements in office.

How can a governor boast of connecting his state to the national grid which is a necessity an achievement? Such can only happen in a state where people cannot demand for the basic things of life from their leaders

It is only special when we go outside the national grid inorder to provide electricity for us.

Experience does not count in governance, what matters is ideas which Dickson is bereft of. While he puts on the plant at Gabriel Okara culture centre on October 1, I will suggest he leverage energy sources such as coal, solar, gas, hydro, biomass and others to lift the power sector growth and sustainability.

Aluzu Ebikebuna Augustine is a Human Rights Activist and can be reached on [email protected]

http://nextnewslive.com/bayelsa-20-on-the-improvement-of-power-with-respect-to-rural-communities/

timmy247x:
-------------YENAGOA


27/9/2016


"Our istration have tried, we have integrated all the interior communities into the national grid, from Sagbama down to Southern Ijaw to Ekeremor and Ogbia and power has improved drastically under our istration."

- His Excellency Henry Seriake Dickson at the event of the Bayelsa State Governorship Debate (28/11/2015)

As Bayelsa clocks 20, there is need to access critically, Bayelsa state power sector under the Dickson Seriake Henry istration.

The power sector yet another celebration of mediocre achievement by the Restoration istration.

I have refused to let the mood of the Bayelsa state celebration becloud my sense of judgement and reasoning like many.

It was the Marxist who postulates that “in the grip of political psychosis, truth, reason and common reason give way to instinct, ion and emotions”. The above statement coming from the Governor in the wake of the 2015, December 5 election is a pungent indictment that his istration is a failed one in respect to power supply in the state. It was also a sad apriori that the sector was omitted in the second term agenda of the Occupier of CREEK HEAVEN.

The Governor was quick to forget that the microphone he used in taking advantage of Bayelsans credulity was possible because it was powered by a generator plant and not government's electric power, solar or mill power.

Poor electricity supply has cost the state a lot. Large and small scale businesses have closed shops. The polythene industry has gone moribund. Grave power deficit and cost of alternative power sources, ed for relocation of few industries that came to the state during the twilight of Alamieyeseigha's istration.

Five years after giving Governor Dickson our mandate, Bayelsans are still paying for darkness courtesy, the national grid.

Every Nigerian state, Local Government or community is expected to be connected to the National grid, but where need be as an Oil producing state, the need to liase with corporate bodies such as Shell, Agip, Texaco etc that are domiciled in Bayelsa state to convert the flaring gas electricity as an alternative for the benefit of the masses for the state where all communities are expected to benefit, for example the Kolo Creek gas turbine, an initiative of Chief Melford Okilo supplied light in the whole of Ogbia, Southern Ijaw, Yenagoa and some parts of Sagbama Local Government Areas without necessarily connecting them to the national grid is an epitome of good government.

However, this noble project is seemed to be abandoned by the present istration and has kept the erstwhile benefiting communities to perpetual darkness.

We cannot overemphasize the importance of electricity (power supply) and the impact it can have in boosting our economy.

Bayelsa state is paying an exorbitant amount in electricity taxation without necessarily getting the dividends of such nefarious taxation.

One sad commentary about our current istration experience is the wanton glorification of responsibility and irresponsibility as dividends of democracy.

In saner climes, the performance of a Leader’s statutory obligations and constitutional functions such as Staff welfare, Community welfare and Institutional strengthening do not constitute achievements (or giant strides as we say here). It is a Leader’s capacity to craft and fashion out a vision that will manifestly translate into the total liberation of his subjects from the interlocking clutches of poverty, socio-economic exploitation, geo-political domination, ethno-cultural dislocation as well as a neo-fascist enslavement implanted by past years of myopic and tyrannical leadership (the Bayelsa story for the past nineteen years) that constitute what is known as achievements in office.

How can a governor boast of connecting his state to the national grid which is a necessity an achievement? Such can only happen in a state where people cannot demand for the basic things of life from their leaders

It is only special when we go outside the national grid inorder to provide electricity for us.

Experience does not count in governance, what matters is ideas which Dickson is bereft of. While he puts on the plant at Gabriel Okara culture centre on October 1, I will suggest he leverage energy sources such as coal, solar, gas, hydro, biomass and others to lift the power sector growth and sustainability.

Aluzu Ebikebuna Augustine is a Human Rights Activist and can be reached on [email protected]

http://nextnewslive.com/bayelsa-20-on-the-improvement-of-power-with-respect-to-rural-communities/

You are a bad belle. What if he did not connect the state to the national grid at all. We should learn to say well-done to our leaders when they are doing something right. It is not bad also to ask for more.

rlauncher:


You are a bad belle. What if he did not connect the state to the national grid at all. We should learn to say well-done to our leaders when they are doing something right. It is not bad also to ask for more.

We should be ashamed that a small state like Bayelsa is not measuring up to its peers even as an oil producing state and someone is here talking about bad balle and applause.

Bad belle and applaud my foot!!!