Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Seriake Dickson has announced plans to reduce the overbearing recurrent expenditure of government and minimize waste with a view to funding critical sectors of the economy.
Hon. Dickson made the announcement in a meeting he held with Permanent Secretaries in Government House, Yenagoa, following the dissolution of the state Executive Council.
Governor Dickson said it has become imperative to make a conscious effort to reduce the government recurrent expenditure because of the plethora of projects and programmes government plans to execute.
The governor noted that government needed to devise a workable plan to realize its vision as outlined in the restoration agenda for the state.
While soliciting the cooperation and support of the Permanent Secretaries, Chief Dickson said human capital development, health care, road construction and other critical infrastructure would be accorded priority attention.
The Governor also underscored the need to enhance the civil service towards making it a result-orientated one and urged the Permanent Secretaries to partner with government to deliver the dividends of democracy, pending the re-constitution of the state Executive Council.
According to him, Government will ensure the provision of functional health care centres in all the communities as well as build general hospitals in all the local government headquarters.
He further stated that government would undertake the upgrading of primary health centres in order to check infant and maternal mortality rate, especially in the rural areas.
“Government needs to break the cycle of half illiteracy which is the root cause of poverty, violence and criminality. To this end, we ’ll build functional primary schools in every community and up grade secondary and tertiary schools”, the governor said .
Governor Dickson said his vision is to have a compact, well-trained, highly-motivated and result-oriented civil service, pointing out that a state can only be as strong and vibrant as its civil service.
The expectations, Dickson observed, are high, assuring that government would re-double efforts to transform the state.
The governor pointed out that the meeting with the Permanent Secretaries would be a regular exercise.
Responding, the Head of Service, Mrs. Gloria Izonfuo, congratulated the Governor on his electoral success and expressed readiness to work with Governor Dickson’s administration towards actualizing set goals.
She also pledged the support of the Permanent Secretaries as well as the civil servants.
Daniel Iworiso-Markson
Senior Special Assistant on Media & Public Affairs
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