President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of Asabe Asmau Ahmed as Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF).
Mrs. Ahmed, who is currently the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, takes over from Sharon Adefunke Kasali who has been Executive Secretary of PEF since 2007.
The new PEF Executive Secretary hails from Niger State and holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, respectively.
She
is expected to put her years of experience in public service to good use in re-engineering, repositioning and re-invigorating PEF for present and future challenges.
President Jonathan has similarly approved the appointment of Denzil Amagbe Kentebe as the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Management Development Board (NCDMB).
Mr. Kentebe, an architect with years of experience in strategic planning and policy management, takes over from Ernest Nwapa who has been Executive Secretary of the NCDMB since April 2010.
Meanwhile, Denzil Amagbe Kentebe hails from Adagbabiri in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. I present myself to you the good people of Bayelsa State, first as your son and also as one who is deeply interested in seeing a positive transformation in the everyday lives of our people.
I am not a professional politician but an everyday Bayelsan who is genuinely disturbed by the slow pace of basic development in our state. As such I can only promise you that which I know I can give within my ability, when I am elected the Executive Governor of Bayelsa State.
A tour of our state by road or by sea will evidently reveal to anyone the true picture of a people so blessed yet living in abject poverty. My dear people of Bayelsa State; each time I see these, my heart bleeds because I can also see that lives basic essentials such as quality education, food, affordable shelter, modern infrastructure, youth empowerment and economic development are lacking. It is therefore my fervent believe that together we can work towards providing these and more for our people and inadvertently restore the unblemished heritage of our fatherland. With your co-operation and support, it can be achieved.
Our dispensation will in all ramifications be humane, transparent and inclusive. Evenly distributed development in all parts of the state shall be our goal. We believe the promise we make to you now is a social contract that MUST be kept.
Ours shall be a Government of the Bayelsa people, by the Bayelsa people and for the Bayelsa people. Our Government will work in co-operation with the Federal Government to bring federal presence to Bayelsa State. We will encourage healthy competition amongst the Local Government Councils for State supported projects. State financial support will be given to Local Government Councils who project State policies within their jurisdiction.
Our
Government shall abide with the principle of the separation of powers between the Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary as this ensures checks and balances in government. A Department of Due Process will be established immediately. This Government shall as a matter of deep urgency put into place enabling mechanism for the provision of amenities and services in the following areas:
| ENVIRONMENT | EDUCATION | HOUSING |
| INFRASTRUCTURE | ECONOMY | WATER SUPPLY |
| ELECTRICITY | HEALTH CARE | EMPLOYMENT |
| TRANSPORTATION | TOURISM |
THE ENVIRONMENT
EDUCATION
- A free and compulsory primary education for all Bayelsans.
- A subsidized secondary education at the junior level.
- Quality teaching aids and technical machineries that are necessary for effective impartation of knowledge.
- Our technical and craft centers shall receive adequate funding and will be transformed to centers of excellence, where those that could not make it to the senior secondary school can go to and acquire necessary skills for their everyday survival.
- Our students in the various tertiary institutions across the state and Nigeria shall receive an improved bursary allocation that is genuinely aimed at helping them ease the very expensive demands of higher education in Nigeria of today.
- The Niger Delta University and other higher institutions will receive great attention during my tenure. We hope to radically improve on all aspect of higher institutions both academically and administratively. We will do all we can to secure accreditation for various course at the Niger Delta University (NDU) within the first year of our administration.
- My administration will strive towards rejuvenating the reading culture amongst the youths in particular and all citizen of Bayelsa state in general. To achieve this, libraries will be set up at various locations within the state. Mobile libraries will also be introduced to reach the people at the grass roots.
INFRASTRUCTURE
- Constructing more-rural feeder roads to link the producing communities to the urban centers and where the community is landlocked, more boat terminals and jetties shall be built.
- Special rural housing projects aimed at uplifting the living standard of our people shall be embarked upon in every community within the state.
- Urban housing estates will be constructed in Yenegoa and all Local Government Headquarters for the civil service. They will be with functional drainage facilities; Playgrounds; recreational areas; landscaping etc.
- We will go into partnership with the private sector on urban housing development.
WATER
ELECTRICITY
COTTAGE INDUSTRIES
ECONOMY
HEALTH CARE
EMPLOYMENT
TRANSPORTATION
SECURTIY
TOURISM
A realistic timeframe will be given for all the issues listed above.
Let us together create a future for our children. Let us together make Ijaw nation the glory of all land. Let us do this together because I trust the power of the people.
Your son,
Amagbe Denzil Kentebe
2007 Governorship Aspirant
Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
http://www.kentebe4gov.com
