By Francis Sadhere, Warri
Commodore Omatseyi Nesiama (rtd), Delta South Senatorial District candidate under the platform of New Nigerian People’s Party, (NNPP) on Monday said he was running for Senate to redefine how legislation is done.
Nesiama, said this while addressing journalists during a press briefing held at the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ Warri Correspondent Chapel, Warri, Delta State.
Nesiama noted that the reason why Nigeria is where they are today was because the present legislatures that we have in the National Assembly have refused to carry out their duties of check and balances.
He said the legislature has refused to hold the executive accountable for not performing their duty, adding that this was why he has decided to join politics.
According to the retired military officer and business mogul, Nigerians have been made to believe that they do not have hope, adding that they were beginning to get used to hopelessness.
He said it was high time Nigerians rose from their slumber and rediscover themselves and develop deliberate act of believing in persons with antecedents encapsulates in credibility and integrity.
He said if voted as the senator representing the good people of Delta South Senatorial District, he would ensure that he promotes and supports legislation that would attract viable programmes, projects for development of the people and communities in Delta South Senatorial District.
He said he would also ensure that constituency project funds would be tied to human capital development where the people are carried along and the projects and programmes “visible to even the blind.”
On the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), Nesiama said if elected as a Senator, he would ensure that through accountable representation and functional constituency engagement and feedback, the PIA will be implemented strictly for the betterment of the people.
“We must get it right through decommissioning and abandonment funds, environmental remediation funds, and other aspects of the Petroleum Industry Act. This I will do through legislation, relegislation , and engagement around the PIA framework for governance,
administration, fiscal and host community provisions,” Nesiama added.
Nesiama, who led the initial ECOMOG landing operation, which provided required intelligence that enabled the ECOMOG forces take-over the strategic Liberian Port of Buchan from the Charles Taylor rebel forces in April 1993, said he will influence, promote and encourage tourism, sports development and mass participation events for improved welfare, youths engagement and other attendant benefits.
As a sport Administrator, Nesiama said if elected he would promote and encourage sports development through mass participation of youths in sporting activities in both the rural and urban areas.
He called on the people of Delta South Senatorial District to vote for people who are capable of giving them quality representation irrespective of which political party they belong to.
