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LETTER OF APPEAL TO THE REPRESENTATIVE OF BAYELSA STATE IN THE GOVERNING BOARD OF NIGER DELTA DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (NDDC), SENATOR DIMARO DENYANBOFA ON THE NEED TO WALL AGGE SHORELINES AGAINST OCEAN SURGE AND DEPLETION
Dear Sen. Dimaro Denyanbofa,
Again and again, you have proven yourself a True Leader to your constituency.The people rejoiced when you became the pioneering Executive Chairman of Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State in the early 1990s. You were seated in a ‘big’ office with little resources to run it, but like the first Prime Minister of Ancient Egypt, you prudently did well with the infinitesimal resources. Your reign was so impactful that you were awarded the Best LGA Chairman of the year 1992.
Your strides towards effecting positive changes in the Niger Delta will not be forgotten by history. The patriotic roles you played through organizations like the Ijaw Youths Action League were also instrumental to the creation of NDDC and you were among those whose efforts birthed the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). And as Special Adviser on NDDC and Niger Delta affairs, you influenced projects worth over N80 billion to Bayelsa State.
As a Special Advisor on State Capital Development in 2003, you were passionately involved in the process that resulted in a number of road infrastructures in Yenagoa, and you initiated the stormwater drainage systems that is serving the capital today. In recognition of these services and the many other contributions you made to Bayelsa State and the Niger Delta, you were appreciated with the office of a Board Member and Commissioner representing Bayelsa State in the Governing Board of NDDC in 2023.
It is with faith in your impressive antecedents, confidence in your humane leadership and hope in your passion to ensure the infrastructural development of Bayelsa State that we are bringing to your attention the pressing need to protect Agge Federated Communities in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa against ocean surge and depletion.
Sir, Agge is one of the most strategic and naturally blessed communities in Bayelsa State, and as a community located along the sandy coastlines of the Atlantic Ocean, as one of the most friendly host communities of Sterling Oil Exploration and Energy Production Company Limited (SEEPCO), Nigeria, being the site for the proposed Bayelsa State’s deep seaport, being a potential tourist spot, and being a potential industrial fishing hub, Agge is a huge blessing to Bayelsa State and Nigeria as a whole.
However, it is sad to state that, with all the huge human and natural capital, potentials, and locational advantages, Agge is at the brink of being washed away by ocean surge. More than a half of the lands, houses and natural splendours of Agge Federated Communities have being swallowed by the furious waves of the Atlantic Ocean. In the year 2013, a shoreline protection contract was awarded to Beks Kemes Nigeria Limited by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), but the project was abandoned by the contractor, giving lack of mobilization from NDDC as the reason for the abandonment. We beseech you to revisit this contract and rescue our communities from extinction.
THE GREATEST PROBLEM OF AGGE FEDERATED COMMUNITIES TODAY IS THE DEPLETION OF OUR LANDS AND SUBMERGENCE OF OUR PROPERTIES OCCASIONED BY OCEAN ENCROACHMENT.
We, therefore, beseech you, sir, to use your good office to save our ancient Communities from completely going under oceanic waters. Agge needs, as a matter of urgency, shoreline protection walls to reclaim and preserve her ancient land, and pass it unto her children and her children’s children as inheritance.
Sir, we look forward to a response approved your humaneness, your environmental conscience and the Mandate of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Thanks and God bless.
© Tobouke Jemine
30/04/2024
LETTER OF APPEAL TO THE REPRESENTATIVE OF BAYELSA STATE IN THE GOVERNING BOARD OF NIGER DELTA DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (NDDC), SENATOR DIMARO DENYANBOFA ON THE NEED TO WALL AGGE SHORELINES AGAINST OCEAN SURGE AND DEPLETION
Dear Sen. Dimaro Denyanbofa,
Again and again, you have proven yourself a True Leader to your constituency.The people rejoiced when you became the pioneering Executive Chairman of Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State in the early 1990s. You were seated in a ‘big’ office with little resources to run it, but like the first Prime Minister of Ancient Egypt, you prudently did well with the infinitesimal resources. Your reign was so impactful that you were awarded the Best LGA Chairman of the year 1992.
Your strides towards effecting positive changes in the Niger Delta will not be forgotten by history. The patriotic roles you played through organizations like the Ijaw Youths Action League were also instrumental to the creation of NDDC and you were among those whose efforts birthed the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). And as Special Adviser on NDDC and Niger Delta affairs, you influenced projects worth over N80 billion to Bayelsa State.
As a Special Advisor on State Capital Development in 2003, you were passionately involved in the process that resulted in a number of road infrastructures in Yenagoa, and you initiated the stormwater drainage systems that is serving the capital today. In recognition of these services and the many other contributions you made to Bayelsa State and the Niger Delta, you were appreciated with the office of a Board Member and Commissioner representing Bayelsa State in the Governing Board of NDDC in 2023.
It is with faith in your impressive antecedents, confidence in your humane leadership and hope in your passion to ensure the infrastructural development of Bayelsa State that we are bringing to your attention the pressing need to protect Agge Federated Communities in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa against ocean surge and depletion.
Sir, Agge is one of the most strategic and naturally blessed communities in Bayelsa State, and as a community located along the sandy coastlines of the Atlantic Ocean, as one of the most friendly host communities of Sterling Oil Exploration and Energy Production Company Limited (SEEPCO), Nigeria, being the site for the proposed Bayelsa State’s deep seaport, being a potential tourist spot, and being a potential industrial fishing hub, Agge is a huge blessing to Bayelsa State and Nigeria as a whole.
However, it is sad to state that, with all the huge human and natural capital, potentials, and locational advantages, Agge is at the brink of being washed away by ocean surge. More than a half of the lands, houses and natural splendours of Agge Federated Communities have being swallowed by the furious waves of the Atlantic Ocean. In the year 2013, a shoreline protection contract was awarded to Beks Kemes Nigeria Limited by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), but the project was abandoned by the contractor, giving lack of mobilization from NDDC as the reason for the abandonment. We beseech you to revisit this contract and rescue our communities from extinction.
THE GREATEST PROBLEM OF AGGE FEDERATED COMMUNITIES TODAY IS THE DEPLETION OF OUR LANDS AND SUBMERGENCE OF OUR PROPERTIES OCCASIONED BY OCEAN ENCROACHMENT.
We, therefore, beseech you, sir, to use your good office to save our ancient Communities from completely going under oceanic waters. Agge needs, as a matter of urgency, shoreline protection walls to reclaim and preserve her ancient land, and pass it unto her children and her children’s children as inheritance.
Sir, we look forward to a response approved your humaneness, your environmental conscience and the Mandate of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Thanks and God bless.
© Tobouke Jemine
30/04/2024
LETTER OF APPEAL TO THE REPRESENTATIVE OF BAYELSA STATE IN THE GOVERNING BOARD OF NIGER DELTA DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (NDDC), SENATOR DIMARO DENYANBOFA ON THE NEED TO WALL AGGE SHORELINES AGAINST OCEAN SURGE AND DEPLETION
Dear Sen. Dimaro Denyanbofa,
Again and again, you have proven yourself a True Leader to your constituency.The people rejoiced when you became the pioneering Executive Chairman of Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State in the early 1990s. You were seated in a ‘big’ office with little resources to run it, but like the first Prime Minister of Ancient Egypt, you prudently did well with the infinitesimal resources. Your reign was so impactful that you were awarded the Best LGA Chairman of the year 1992.
Your strides towards effecting positive changes in the Niger Delta will not be forgotten by history. The patriotic roles you played through organizations like the Ijaw Youths Action League were also instrumental to the creation of NDDC and you were among those whose efforts birthed the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). And as Special Adviser on NDDC and Niger Delta affairs, you influenced projects worth over N80 billion to Bayelsa State.
As a Special Advisor on State Capital Development in 2003, you were passionately involved in the process that resulted in a number of road infrastructures in Yenagoa, and you initiated the stormwater drainage systems that is serving the capital today. In recognition of these services and the many other contributions you made to Bayelsa State and the Niger Delta, you were appreciated with the office of a Board Member and Commissioner representing Bayelsa State in the Governing Board of NDDC in 2023.
It is with faith in your impressive antecedents, confidence in your humane leadership and hope in your passion to ensure the infrastructural development of Bayelsa State that we are bringing to your attention the pressing need to protect Agge Federated Communities in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa against ocean surge and depletion.
Sir, Agge is one of the most strategic and naturally blessed communities in Bayelsa State, and as a community located along the sandy coastlines of the Atlantic Ocean, as one of the most friendly host communities of Sterling Oil Exploration and Energy Production Company Limited (SEEPCO), Nigeria, being the site for the proposed Bayelsa State’s deep seaport, being a potential tourist spot, and being a potential industrial fishing hub, Agge is a huge blessing to Bayelsa State and Nigeria as a whole.
However, it is sad to state that, with all the huge human and natural capital, potentials, and locational advantages, Agge is at the brink of being washed away by ocean surge. More than a half of the lands, houses and natural splendours of Agge Federated Communities have being swallowed by the furious waves of the Atlantic Ocean. In the year 2013, a shoreline protection contract was awarded to Beks Kemes Nigeria Limited by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), but the project was abandoned by the contractor, giving lack of mobilization from NDDC as the reason for the abandonment. We beseech you to revisit this contract and rescue our communities from extinction.
THE GREATEST PROBLEM OF AGGE FEDERATED COMMUNITIES TODAY IS THE DEPLETION OF OUR LANDS AND SUBMERGENCE OF OUR PROPERTIES OCCASIONED BY OCEAN ENCROACHMENT.
We, therefore, beseech you, sir, to use your good office to save our ancient Communities from completely going under oceanic waters. Agge needs, as a matter of urgency, shoreline protection walls to reclaim and preserve her ancient land, and pass it unto her children and her children’s children as inheritance.
Sir, we look forward to a response approved your humaneness, your environmental conscience and the Mandate of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Thanks and God bless.
© Tobouke Jemine
30/04/2024