143rd State Exco Meeting: Gov. Diri Thanks Pres. Tinubu For Bayelsans Appointments

….. Urges Bayelsans to key into opportunities in Blue Economy

…..says approving N80,000 minimum wage is to encourage Bayelsa workers

Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri has once again, thanked President Bola Tinubu for appointing sons and daughters of Bayelsa into sensitive positions of trust at the federal level.

Gov. Diri extended his appreciation to the President at the 143rd State Executive Council Meeting in Government House, Yenagoa.

“We thank Mr. President for appointing distinguished Bayelsans into positions of trust, amongst whom are, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Mrs. Didi Esther Walson-Jack, Head of service of the federation, Dr. Emomotimi Agama, Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Nigeria, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission and Prince Ebitimi Amgbare, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Niger Delta Basin Development Authority.

While thanking Bayelsans for their continuous support for the prosperity government, Governor Diri urged the people of the state to key in, and take advantage of the opportunities in the ministry of Marine and Blue Economy, stating that, as Ijaw people, the ministry depicts our life.

“Let me use this opportunity to thank Bayelsans for their commitment and support to their own government, beginning with the annual thanksgiving that we held on the 2nd of November.

“Our political leaders, traditional leaders, women and youths turned out in their numbers from the various local government areas to mark the annual thanksgiving programme, and we are grateful for that.

“Again, there is a ministry that is so dear to us as a state and as an ethnic nationality, which is the ministry of Marine and Blue Economy.

“The ministry which was created to tap the opportunities from the federal ministry of Marine and Blue Economy, depicts the life of the Ijaw man, as our life is majorly into marine, fishing and farming.

“That’s how that ministry is dear to us, and all of us in the executive council and in the state must key in.

“It shows that we can diversify our economy, because we cannot continue to be talking about only Oil and Gas as a state blessed with many natural resources.

On the minimum wage, Governor Diri stated that, as the engine room of government, workers in the state needed to be encouraged, hence the pegging of the minimum wage at N80,000.00.

He urged workers in the state to take their work diligently and seriously in discharging their duties, adding that to whom much is given, much is expected.