“The governor has given anticipatory approval but I believe he will give the final approval this week.”
“It is time to stop handling the tormentors of the Nembe people with a kid glove.”
Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday expressed sadness over the demise of ex-Acting Governor Nestor Binabo, who died in an Abuja hospital.
“In Bayelsa, the problem I have is that we are understaffed; from the Muslim wing, we just have two people who do this operation.”
Environmentalists on Wednesday called on the Bayelsa government to take urgent and immediate action on the BSOEC report.
The ECA, a fund that warehouses oil revenue in excess of the budget benchmark of crude oil prices, was paid quarterly from the FAAC to the state.
The state has been empowering two persons per ward every month for the past 10 months.
Since the creation of Bayelsa in 1996 some LGAs like Southern Ijaw, Ekeremor and Brass have yet to be connected to the capital Yenagoa and other towns by road.
The death toll from the flood disaster was confirmed by the Bayelsa government on Wednesday.
Mr Kpodoh said the recurrent destructive effects of floods across the country were enough evidence that governors were diverting ecological funds.
