The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpor, has said he was hitherto ashamed of the state for glaringly lacking physical development.
Ewhrudjakpor said the state could hardly boast of development infrastructure especially among the comity states in the South-South region.
He bared his mind while addressing newsmen in Yenagoa after his weekly inspection of on-going projects embarked upon by the Governor Seriake Dickson-led administration.
The commissioner said it was at the first BRACED Commission meeting in Asaba that shame overwhelmed him, as the state could not showcase anything.
He said there were now sufficient reasons for him to beat his chest as the state government had invested massively in infrastructure development.
“I was ashamed when we had our first BRACED Commission meeting in Asaba. Now, we can boast that we have a flyover, but Delta State is only building now. Edo and Cross River states don’t have any. These states were all created long before ours’, Ewhrudjakpor said.
According to him, the massive investment in infrastructure was to open up the state for rapid development, adding that the state had lagged behind in development.
“The governor has sworn that he wants to make Bayelsa the Dubai of Africa. So, we are investing massively in infrastructure because we have a deficit in that area”, he said.
The commissioner, who had on his entourage some staff of the ministry, labour leaders, civil society activists, government officials and politicians as well as journalists, inspected several projects in the state capital.
The projects include the Onopa Villa and Resort, the state Museum and Archives Centre, New Governor’s Office complex, the Diagnostics Centre at the 500-bed Hospital, residential quarters for medical personnel, fly over, Outer Yenagoa Ring Road, the Tower Hotel, Isaac Boro Road, among other road projects.
Source: http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/08/ashamed-bayelsa-says-commissioner/
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