Gov Diri Hails Tinubu For Giving Bayelsans Key Appointments
Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri has again, thanked the President Bola Tinubu, for appointing Bayelsans into positions of trust at the federal level.
Gov. Diri made the statement at the 143rd Executive Council Meeting in government house, Yenagoa.
“We thank Mr. President for appointing distinguished Bayelsans into positions of trust, amongst whom are, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Mrs. Didi Esther Walson-Jack, Head of service of the federation, Dr. Emomotimi Agama, Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Nigeria, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission and Prince Ebitimi Amgbare, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Niger Delta Basin Development Authority.”
While thanking Bayelsans for their support for the prosperity government, governor Diri also urged the people of the state to key in and take advantage of the opportunities in the ministry of Marine and Blue Economy, stating that, as Ijaw people, the ministry depicts our life.
“Let me use this opportunity to thank Bayelsans for their commitment and support to their own government, beginning with the annual thanksgiving that we held on the 2nd of November. Our leaders, women and youth turned out in their numbers from the various local government areas, and we are grateful for that.
Again, there is a ministry that is so dear to us as a state and as an ethnic nationality, and that is the ministry of Marine and Blue Economy. That ministry depicts the life of the Ijaw man, because our life is majorly into marine, fishing and farming.
That’s how that ministry is dear to us, and all of us in Exco and in the state must key in. It shows that we can diversify our economy, because we cannot continue to be talking about only Oil and Gas.”
On the minimum wage, governor Diri stated that, as the engine room of government, the workers in the state needed to be encouraged, hence the pegging of the minimum wage at N80,000.00.
