Bayelsa sets up 15-man emergency response committee

The Bayelsa State Executive Council has approved the 2016 fiscal estimate tagged: “Budget of Transition”, with emphasis on the completion of ongoing developmental projects across the three senatorial districts...


This was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday night by the Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Iworiso-Markson to Governor Henry Seriake Dickson.

The council said that the 15-man emergency response team constituted during the Ebola outbreak in the country had been put on alert, in case of any possible outbreak of Lassa fever in the state.

It, however, said that priority attention would be given to the tower and four star hotels, as well as the development of tourism, agriculture and industrialisation.

Speaking with journalists alongside other members of the State Executive Council in Yenagoa, the state Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Mr Ambrose Akierite said this was one of the major resolutions taken at the 55th Executive Council meeting.