Niger Delta
Bayelsa Commits To Tackling Environmental Challenges
The Bayelsa State Government, has again reaffirmed its preparedness towards tackling environmental problems facing the state.
Commissioner for Environment, Hon. Iselema Gbaranbiri revealed this to The Tide during an interview in Yenagoa.
Gbaranbiri hinted that his visit to get first hand information on environmental issues confronting some communities in the state during his first few days upon assumption of office was based on the love the Prosperity administration led by Governor Douye Diri has for the state and its people.
He noted that the ministry had since commenced discussions with foreign partners with specialty on solutions to environmental issues on possible ways of containing the challenges facing the state’s environment just as he restated that the government would soon be convening an environment summit for practical solutions to the issues.
He stated that the bane of some communities in the state was the activities of sand dredging, just as he affirmed that if urgent measures were ignored, some of them may soon go into extinction as erosion occasioned by indiscriminate sand scooping had led to massive exodus of both natives and tenants in affected communities.
The commissioner said that following government’s commitment in ensuring a habitable, safe and secure environment, the ministry would soon partner with a firm which he said would recycle waste in the state to wealth, thereby not only solving environmental questions, but as well creating jobs for the citizens of the state.
He warned against illegal oil bunkering and vandalism,saying outside the devastation of the fauna and flora by these twin menaces, it was also incriminating for any one to be involved in these dastardly acts which have graver economic and social implications.
Speaking on the perennial flooding within Yenagoa metropolis, Gbaranbiri reiterated government’s readiness to kick-start the processes of partnership with specialists in finding lasting solutions, noting that the government intend to construct well planned channels to drain the waters into the major rivers across the state for a free onward flow into the ocean.
By: Ariwera Ibibo-Howells, Yenagoa
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