Bayelsa Govt. urges oil communities to embrace peace to attract
development
The Bayelsa government has called on its oil-bearing communities
to always embrace peace and work with the state government in order to attract
sustainable development to their areas.
Mr Felix Bonny Ayah,
Special Adviser to Gov. Seriake Dickson on oil and gas, made the call in a chat
with newsmen during a peace meeting in Yenagoa on Monday.
The peace meeting was
brokered between Shell and Kolo Creek Cluster Development Board (CDB).
The Acting Paramount
Ruler of Otuasega Community, Chief Claudius Enegesi, attended the meeting held
at the Ministry of Mineral Resources in Yenagoa.
Ayah identified peace as
the panacea to development in any society, saying that no meaningful
development could thrive in an atmosphere of rancour and acrimony.
Ayah called on all
aggrieved parties to always resort to dialogue to settle their differences
because no battle is won using the barrel of gun.
Also speaking, Mrs Kenu
Walson, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, who presided over the meeting,
urged the parties to shift grounds and make concessions in the overall interest
of all.
Earlier, Mr Okpu
Solomon, Chairman of the Kolo Creek CDB, advised the government to follow due
process in resolving differences.
He also charged the
government to see the report of the dispute resolution committee as the only
mechanism to resolve the impasse.
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