…As Ex-Lawmaker Tasks Gov On Dev

Former lawmaker representing Ogbia Constituency 3 in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly and one time regent of Imiringi Community of Ogbia council area, Augustus Osomu, has charged the Bayelsa State Government on development.
The erstwhile legislator said it is one thing to have a state and quite another to have visionary leadership.
He stated that from 1996 when the state was created to date, save for concerted efforts by a few previous administrations, no tangible development has come to the state.
Osomu decried the pace of both social and infrastructural projects being executed in the state as slow and worrisome, alleging that what is on ground is not commensurate with the huge sums of federal allocations which have accrued to the state overtime.
He lambasted the immediate past administration of former governor Seriake Dickson, alleging that the former government plunged the state into perennial under- development with incessant borrowings which he said might last longer to offset.
He reiterated the importance of appropriate deployment of the finances of the state for its economic benefits, alleging that rather, certain leaders were hell-bent on promoting tribal extremism in the state, owing to lopsided siting and award of projects and unwarranted public insults on citizens.

By: Ariwera Ibibo-Howells, Yenagoa