A socio-cultural group, Bayelsa West Congress, has commended the former governor of Bayelsa State and senator representing Bayelsa West, Senator Henry Seriake
Dickson, for working relentlessly with Governor Douye Diri and other Bayelsa leaders to retrieve the state owned Atala oil field.
The group which hailed Dickson’s doggedness and commitment in the struggle towards retrieving and restoring the state’s licence on the Atala Oil Field, OML 46, which was unjustly revoked by the defunct Department of Petroleum Resources in 2020 said, it was Senator Dickson who called the minister of state for petroleum resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, on the telephone to enquire why an oil field belonging to his home state was canceled.
“The minister told Senator Dickson that it was not just Atala OML but all non-producing oil fields owned by other governments. This was publicly stated in a statement by Senator Dickson,” it stated. In a statement jointly signed by its chairman, Ebide Brown and spokesman, Moses Hitler respectively , it argued that Senator Dickson is not a businessman and has no personal interest in the Bayelsa Oil fields apart from the general interest of Bayelsa State.
While challenging the current administration to speak up and clarify issues, the group added that Senator Dickson upheld the interests of the state and the Ijaw nation during his administration as governor and has continued to do so even as a senator.
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