Niger Delta
Bayelsa Has Done Well At 24 -NLC Chairman
The Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC),Bayelsa State chapter, Comrade John Ndiomu, says the state is doing well since after its creation 24 years ago.
Ndiomu said that but for the creation of the state, its people and communities would have hardly had chances of development,pointing out that the Bayelsa State of today was the most under- developed part of the old Rivers State.
The labour leader who also bared his mind on the recently celebrated 60th Independence of Nigeria noted that it was as a result of the independence of the country that additional region was created, saying this later dawned on the government to create states for rapid socio-economic transformation where the old Rivers State was amongst those created.
Ndiomu stated that with the need to attract faster development, the present Bayelsa State was carved out of the old Rivers State, bringing the level of development presently seen in the state to being.
He hinted that through concerted efforts by successive administrations in the state,Yenagoa which hitherto was one of the remotest areas of the country now has most of the trappings of an urban centre, noting that with the needed infrastructure put in place, the state would be competing favourably with its peers in the nation.
He commended Governor Douye Diri for his labour- friendly policies, harping that arrears owed workers by successive administrations in the state civil service were gradually being cleared by the current government.
He enjoined workers to continue having faith in the leadership of the NLC,just as he said though it is not yet Uhuru labour under his stewardship has recorded its share of achievements within his first and second tenures.
The two term labour leader urged employed and unemployed Bayelsans and Nigerians to remain at peace with one another, maintaining that the recently celebrated twin anniversaries of the nation’s Independence and State creation were a time for sober reflection on the past, present and future of the nation and state, respectively.
By: Ariwera Ibibo-Howells, Yenagoa.
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