Ekeremor Indigenes Receive Empowerment Tools

[Shola Sholaz]

Ekeremor is one of the many oil rich local government council areas in Bayelsa State that cannot be accessed by road.
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Though the Federal Government through its interventionist agency, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), embarked on what many described as 'cosmetic road project' from the Sagbama flank to link the isolated oil rich Ekeremor enclave to mainland Yenogoa and the few upland communities in the state.
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The project was starved of funds causing it to go at snail speed for many years, a development that prompted the administration of Seriake Dickson to ask the commission to hands off the road and took over the project.
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Interestingly, the Bayelsa West senatorial district like the central and east senatorial districts is host to the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company and the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, while the natives are predominantly farmers and fishermen.