Gov. Diri Declares Open 3-day Training Programme For Local Government Councillors In Bayelsa State

“Today, we are all gathered here in one hall to rub minds together and to build a capacity of our Local Government Councils, so, it is on this note, I like to acknowledge the Honourable Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy, who have been working assiduously to ensure that this programme comes to fruition. I like to also appreciate the Local Government Chairmen, their deputies and ALGON for ensuring that this programme actually comes to fruition.

I like to tag you as my colleagues, colleagues in the broad sense of legislative business, having been a legislator, legislative business at all tiers of Government are virtually the same. So, I like to invite you to be very calm and listen and make contributions when necessary. 

It is on this note that I hereby declare this 3-day training programme for Local Government Councils open.”

~Senator Douye Diri, Governor of Bayelsa State, speaking at the opening ceremony of a 3-day training programme for Local Government Councilor with the theme: “Building Capacity for Legislative Impact” which had in attendance, Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, Chief of Staff, Government House, Chief Benson Sunday Agadaga and his deputy, Peter Akpe, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy, Chief Thompson Amule, Member representing Kolokuma/Opokuma constituency 1, Hon.Tonye Isenah, some members of the State Executive Council and other top government functionaries, at the Dappa-Biriye Conference Hall, Golden Tulip, Onopa, Yenagoa.