Segun James
6 June 2008
Yenagoa — A consortium of three companies has agreed to site another Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project in the Brass area of Bayelsa State.
The project will be the second LNG project to be sited on Brass Island , after the federal government owned Brass LNG which ground breaking ceremony was performed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo last year. Governor Chief Timipre Sylva disclosed this yesterday while receiving elders and Chiefs of Okpoama/Ewoama communities at the Government House, Yenagoa.
Sylva said that the peaceful way they handled and ensured the peaceful take-off of the Brass LNG Project may be responsible for the decision to site another LNG plant in the area, he therefore appealed for more co-operation towards the realization of the proposed LNG project, which according to him, will require about 641 hectares of land.
He said it is expedient that peace is maintained in the area as investments worth billions of dollars will be coming into the state, noting that the new project will get feedstock from the Brass LNG project.
The State Chief Executive said such investments are bound to transform the lives of the people in the area and the state at large.
The Governor also said that the canal project going on in Brass which is currently in its first phase, will be extended to Okpoama in order to make the community accessible by large boats during low tide.
Sylva pledged the government's full involvement in the burial rites of the monarch of the clan, the late King Kesiye Saint Sagbe, whom he noted was a first class traditional ruler in the state.
Earlier, Chairman of the Okpoama Council of Chiefs, Chief Willy Watson-Iti had congratulated Chief Sylva and his deputy, Mr. Peremobowei Ebebi on their re-election into office and prayed God to grant then wisdom to pilot the affairs of the state.
Watson-Iti used the opportunity to highlight a number of problems affecting the Okpoama clan which he said include, rehabilitation and re-settlement of some displaced communities in the area, maintenance of Mobile Police contingent, canalization and dredging of the river as well as sand filling of the water front of Ewoama community. The people also appealed to the government to upgrade the existing health centre to a general hospital, provide speed boats for transportation, establish a skills acquisition centre, proper upgrading and reticulation of the water facility as well as the introduction of a micro credit scheme in Okpoama.
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