Townhall meeting: Bayelsa commissioner seeks partnership with NOA

Ahead of the planned town hall meeting on the public service reforms, the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson on has visited the state office ‎of the National Orientation Agency (NOA).

The Commissioner who was accompanied by members of the state media team was received on arrival by top officials of the‎ agency.

In his remarks during the visit held on Thursday, the Commissioner said the visit was to seek the support of the NOA ‎in the forthcoming town hall meeting on the public service reforms in the state.

According to him, the agency’s collaboration will assist the government in the collation of feedback which will further help the reforms process and urged the NOA to spread its officials to all the venues of the town hall meeting in order to put together a comprehensive assessment report.

He said the restoration administration ‎of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson was determined to clean the augean stable and make the state public service more productive and result oriented.

Iworiso-Markson who disclosed some of the shocking revelations from the various committees carrying out the verification of workers‎, said the government will unfold some of its findings during the town hall meeting.

“I am very delighted to be here ‎today. This is the first time I will be visiting a federal agency since I became the Commissioner for Information and Orientation. As you can see, I didn’t come alone. With me are members of the state media team.

“We have come here to solicit your partnership on the town hall meeting we are organizing. Beginning from next week, we will be going from one local government to the other, engaging our people on the reforms that we are carrying out in the public sector.

“We believe that the NOA as a credible organization can help us gather independent feedback that will assist us as we continue the implementation of the reforms. So we want your people to be everywhere and monitor proceedings of the town hall meeting. ‎The reforms we are doing is for the good of our people” he said.

Responding, the State Director of the NOA, Ide Oduasepkar who was represented by the Director of Programmes, Mr. Ogbofa Doutimiye commended the commissioner for the visit, saying it was an honour to the agency.

He remarked that the reforms of the government were a step in the right direction and assured the commissioner of their partnership to ensure that the town hall meeting is a huge success.

The NOA Director noted that as an agency saddled with the responsibility of galvanizing public opinions in favour of government, it will work with the restoration administration to achieve ‎the objectives of the reforms.