Bayelsa State donates edifice to NUPRC for conflicts resolution

Bayelsa State Government has donated a three-storey building equipped with the state-of-the-art facilities to the Federal Government for the use of Nigeria Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC).

The building which is to serve as Center for Conflicts Resolutions in the Niger Delta Region and situated at Yenegoa, the capital of Bayelsa, used to be headquartered in Lagos.

In a grand handing-over ceremony on Wednesday, the Bayelsa State Governor, Mr Douye Diri, asserted that his administration decided to donate the building which was originally designated as the State Ministry of Finance, to the NUPRC to further promote peace in the region.

The governor thanked Mr Government Tompolo and relevant stakeholders who contributed in making sure that the relocation of the Center to the state came to pass.

Diri maintained that his administration would continue to pursue things that would engender peace in the state for the common good of its people and the nation.

Earlier at the programme, the Executive Commissioner, Health Safety Environment and Community (HSEC), Captain Tonlagha, who led the NUPRC team on behalf of the Commission Chief Executive, Engr Gbenga Komolafe, thanked the state helmsman for the gesture, assuring that the Commission would always work round the clock at ensuring that peace in the region was achieved through dispassionate and timely resolution of conflicts.

“Your Excellency, while appreciating you for the donation of this wonderful and beautiful edifice to the nation through our Commission, the NUPRC, we want to assure that all issues relating to conflicts in the Niger Delta Region, will always be speedily attended to. In doing this, we shall stop at nothing, in achieving the desired peace in the region and ensuring the dividends to all oil producing communities in the Niger Delta” the Executive Commissioner, assured.

Similarly, he appreciated the Environmental Activist, Mr Tompolo, for his avowed interest in seeing to it that the region becomes more peaceful, especially with his intervention at ensuring that the Center was brought to Bayelsa State.

Among those who graced the occasion include Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, Rt Hon Alabo Gideon Ekeuwei, Chief Benjamin Ogunnubi,Head, Warri Regional Office, Sylvester Bighoro, Bayelsa State Co-ordinator, NUPRC, Kingsley Ehiaguina, Assistant Director, Community NUPRC and the Consultant,among others.

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L-R; Solomon Arit, Chief Benjamin Ogunnubi, Head, Warri Regional Office, Consultant, the Executive Commissioner, HSEC, Captain Tonlagha, Governor Douye Diri(middle), his SSG,Rt Hon Alabo Gideon Ekeuwei, the state Co-ordinator, NUPRC, Sylvester Bighoro, Assistant Director Community NUPRC, Kingsley Ehiaguina and others