Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has directed ministries, departments and agencies handling construction-related projects for which contractors are yet to be mobilized to complete proper documentation of such contracts before the end of this month.

Governor Dickson who issued the directives while inaugurating the chairman and members of the State Infrastructure Advisory Committee at the Executive Chambers of Government House, Yenagoa lamented the setbacks his administration’s ambitious programmes have suffered as a result of the ravaging flood.

He said the directive had become imperative as Government is fully set to immediately continue with both ongoing and new projects as soon as the flood recedes.

While seeking understanding from the contractors, Governor Dickson assured that Government will do everything possible to mobilize them to site.

Governor Dickson, however urged the 16-member committee to advise Government on how to construct and maintain its critical public facilities in the State.

The Governor also charged the committee to conduct a baseline study of the entire state and furnish Government with statistics on the highest water levels.

Knowing the topography of the State, Governor Dickson said he had since conceptualized the idea of setting up the committee even before assuming office, pointing out that the magnitude of the current flood disaster reinforces its significance.

Expressing confidence in the committee, Hon Dickson also enjoined them to look into issues of concession, adding that government alone cannot build all the state-of-the-art infrastructures it intends to build for the State without input from the private sectors.

“From time to time we will like to have reports and advice in terms of the priority of our public infrastructure and also in terms of issues that have to do with concession because the state does not have the resources on our own to do all the construction that we really need”.