Stakeholders Want Legislative Blueprint For LGAs

Stakeholders in Andoni and Opobo/Nkoro Local Government Areas have advocated for a legislative blueprint anchored on environmental infrastructural and educational requirements of the areas.

Making their views known during the first Andoni/Opobo/Nkoro contituency interactive forum on legislative focus put together by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the areas, Hon. Dakuku Peterside and Democratic Leadership Institute (DLI) in Port Harcourt, Tuesday, the stakeholders decried the infrastructural backwardness over the years.

Chairman of the occasion and traditional ruler in Andoni, Chief Dr. Silas Eneyo submitted that the area needed a new legislative focus that would drive development and reduce the plight of the indigenes of the area.

Dr. Eneyo while lamenting the various environmental challenges faced in the constituency, charged the candidate to ensure that federal government attention was drawn to address the ocean surge and erosion problems faced by most communities in the area.

Former Commissioner for Agriculture in the old Rivers State and Professor of Geology in the University of Port Harcourt, Professor Winston Bellgam stressed the need for a regional development blueprint for the constituency.

Professor Bellgam submitted that the regional blueprint would encompass all facets of development, but that more concentration should be given creation of oil and gas industry since the area lacks any federal presence.

Speaking on “Good Governance and Transparency”, Dean of the Faculty of Management Science in the Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) Professor Seth Accra-Jaja urged that transparency and good governance can only be achieved when the citizenry are allowed to make contributions in their development through the sharing of ideas.