Why I run a transparent govt –Dickson

Bayelsa State Gov­ernor, Seriake Dickson has said he would run a transparent government to keep the citizens of the state informed on the workings of his administration.

The governor promised to focus on improving the lives of the people of the state and not succumb to rumour mongers and those, who did not wish the state well.

Dickson spoke through his Special Adviser on po­litical matters, Mr Fred Ag­bedi, at a maiden ministerial media briefing in Yenagoa, capital of the state.

e described the brief­ing as “a veritable channel to further educate and en­lighten our people on the policies, programmes, prog­ress of project execution and overall activities of the restoration government of Governor Seriake Dickson.”

Agbedi disclosed that Dickson had tasked each ministry and Millennium Development Agencies (MDAs) to “leap-frog our people from want to wealth, from poverty to prosperity, from despair to hope, inse­curity to security of lives and property.”

Agbedi lashed out at “desperate politicians and mischief-makers” for “mis­informing the public and spreading all kinds of ru­mours to achieve their self­ish agenda.”

According to Agbedi, the “desperate politicians” were out to discredit the Dickson administration, which he stressed “is al­ready receiving local and international accolades for its unprecedented develop­mental strides in virtually all spheres.”

He, however, assured that “no amount of blackmail and propaganda aimed at distort­ing facts and rubbishing the monumental achievements of this administration will stand.”

He described the two year-old administration as a “watershed looking at where we were, where we are now and the possibilities ahead of us.

“This administration will continue to move on with renewed zeal, greater com­mitment and determination to complete this race of re­newal and restoration of our dear state.

“The point remains in­violable that the restora­tion government has in the last two years changed the socio-economic and politi­cal climate in Bayelsa State for good. No one can feign ignorance of this reality be­cause in every household, there will certainly be wit­nesses that their lives have been positively affected,” he said.