![]() Several people, in and outside government, know the source of this flood. This devastation is not caused merely by heavy down pour. There is need to seek a permanent solution to this problem. While we cherish the usual deployment of relief materials at times like this, this can only grant temporary succour. Both the oil companies, their affiliates and the federal government must come to the rescue of Bayelsa people. It is the legendary goose that bears the golden egg. Inside its belly is the treasure of Nigeria. We need a massive federal might and international agencies intervention.īayelsa is an oil and gas producing state. The state government can hardly contain this situation alone. There is no doubting the fact that we need help at a massive level. But this is like a drop in the ocean of need. This kind of terrain serves as a natural attraction to flood, and requires that something sustainable be done to remedy the situation.Īs individuals, we are doing the best we can to help our people – in the areas of food and accommodation. Several buildings are now the water.īayelsa is naturally a water-logged state. Several communities have been completely flooded. And before next year comes with something worse than the worst, it’s time to wake up. We have never witnessed it at this level before – not in my lifetime. In all the years we have faced this kind of destruction, every year always present a worst-case scenario. Some are sick but cannot be treated, because our hospitals no longer exist. Those who have narrowly escaped this catastrophe are homeless. The state government is doing its best but we need more help. This is a case for national emergency and not merely an expression of sympathy. These attack cuts across party lines and ethnic groupings. It’s water and more water everywhere.īayelsa State is under attack. Those that have been traced cannot even be buried. Some of the corpses have not been traced. Without any fault of theirs, they have died avoidable and painful death. Those who have died do not deserve to die. At the peak of the flood, our local airport and the Niger Delta University were rendered inaccessible until government initiated moves to restore the over-flooded section of Yenogoa-Amassoma Road. Hospitals with patients and staff have come under attack and destruction. In other situations, families have gone to bed in the comfort of their homes, only to be drowned, never able to wake up again. Those who live in glass houses have no reasons to throw stones.In some cases, several families have woken up from sleep to find themselves being helplessly driven by water to unknown destinations. On the issue of Alamieyeseigha, the PDP members should look inwards and ask those who took over from the governor how they became beneficiaries of Alamieyeseigha’s removal from office if truly someone else funded the grand betrayal of the governor. According to one of the online publications where Bayelsa State funds are being pumped into in sponsorship, Alaibe has been accused in the most stupid and senseless manner of spending billions of naira on the PDP third term bid of 2006 and another several billions on the removal of Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha as governor of Bayelsa State many years ago. The latest from the dirty stable of the PDP are the obviously unthinking, senseless and puerile lies credited to a certain factotum with the incongruous description of the state secretary of the PDP. These are indeed interesting yet dangerous, very dangerous times. From last month’s failed attempt to insinuate an innocent man into their sanitation day show of shame when they lied about Alaibe’s presence in Yenegoa, whereas he was in Lagos State to the ungodly and inhuman play on the tragedy that befell our party when our former leader, Colobel Inokoba (retired), died, by sponsoring a story that the man died in Alaibe’s house, the leaders of PDP in Bayelsa State have been clutching at every weak straw as they continue to drown in their ocean of irresponsible leadership.
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