{"id":58462,"date":"2017-07-07T19:44:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T18:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=58462"},"modified":"2017-07-07T19:44:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T18:44:57","slug":"dickson-backs-calls-restructuring-calls-urgent-implementation-confab-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/dickson-backs-calls-restructuring-calls-urgent-implementation-confab-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickson Backs Calls For Restructuring \u2026Calls For urgent implementation of confab reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_413420633\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Friday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0urged the Federal Government to urgently set machinery in place for the restructuring of the country to address the myriad of issues bedeviling peace and development of the country.<br \/>\nSpeaking on a wide range of issues during a live interview programme on Africa Independent Television, AIT, he also called on political leaders to show true patriotism by espousing causes that promote national the interest.<br \/>\nGovernor Dickson, who said restructuring would engender efficiency of the Judiciary, fiscal federalism to enable owners of resources have a sense of belonging and justice in the polity, however, kicked against the convocation of another national conference in the country.<br \/>\nWhile calling for the overhauling of the nation\u2019s judicial system, he noted that, the judiciary could no longer perform optimally due to the workload foisted on it by the prevailing structure.<br \/>\nThe Governor also justified the resource control struggle of the Niger Delta people, describing the situation where legislations are enacted deliberately to deprive the people of their God-given resources is unacceptable and condemnable.<br \/>\nHis words: \u201cI keep saying that, what you call in Abuja, Lagos and other capitals of the world, as oil bloc, is the ancestral property of the people of the Niger Delta. You sit down here in Abuja and allocate it as you please but that is someone\u2019s property in the Niger Delta. So it is perfectly legitimate for the people to complain, that \u2018look, the federation is unfair.\u2019<br \/>\n\u201cWe have been funding this country for the past 61 years. You have built major capitals and billionaires out of it. Nigeria, because of the discovery of oil at Oloibiri in Bayelsa in 1956 and now in other places in the Niger Delta became a global power. Good, we are in a country and that\u2019s our contribution, but then, you have to be fair and look at the side effects of oil production and the sacrifices we are making. Our people are dying. So, let\u2019s see how they can get commensurate benefits from this; that is resource control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our constitution, we claim that we are operating a free market capitalist economy, but what Nigeria did against the oil producing people was that, they passed series of legislations effectively expropriating the resources of the Niger Delta people and vesting same on the federal government. My argument is that, we produce and so we own. The federation has the power to levy a tax. So what you do is to raise your tax. That way, you have respected the principles of ownership.<br \/>\n\u201cAs it stands today, it means in FCT you have land that you are selling like oil; in Lagos, your land is as costly as oil but when you come to Bayelsa, and you see oil or gas, there is no ownership of land.\u201d<br \/>\nOn the implementation of reports of past national conferences, the Governor stressed the need for the Federal Government to set up a technical committee to distill the recommendations for the president to forward to the National Assembly for consideration and passage.<br \/>\nReacting to the issue of insecurity in the country, Governor Dickson urged Northern and Igbo leaders to prevail on their youths to refrain from making inflammatory statements capable of jeopardizing national security.<br \/>\nThe Governor, who posited that, all tiers of the government should invest appropriately in the educational sector, attributed leadership failure in all strata of society to the collapse of education and lack of proper mentorship.<br \/>\nHe also underscored the need for both leaders and followers to respect the rule of law as enshrined in the constitution, noting that, not much would be achieved in the fight against corruption if constitutional orders were flouted with impunity.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State\u00a0on Friday\u00a0urged the Federal Government to urgently set machinery in place for the restructuring of the country to address the myriad of issues bedeviling peace&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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