Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa yesterday plunked down a whopping N3 billion as mobilisation fee for two flyover bridges in Yenogoa, the state capital. The total cost of both projects is N15.6 billion, SaharaReporters has learned.
Dickson’s action comes at a time that millions of residents in coastal areas of the state remain cut off from the rest of the world. Most of Bayelsa’s communities are not accessible by road, making the construction of bridges a critical necessity.
It will be recalled that General Andrew Azazi, a former National Security Adviser, lost his life in a helicopter crash in Bayelsa last December while returning from one such community.
Dickson, who personally presented the upfront payment to the management of Julius Berger, said that the flyover bridges would add aesthetics to Yenagoa.
As the governor made his aesthetics move, critical infrastructure such as roads and bridges that were damaged in the recent flood disaster are still begging for attention, and there is no drinking water.
One of the flyovers Julius Berger will be constructing, at Tombia Road/Edepie Junction, is valued at N9.8 billion. The second one, valued at N5.8 billion, will be sited at a roundabout at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) petrol station.
Bayelsa State last month received a total of N15,215,365,755.87 from the Federation Account, according to figures from the Revenue Mobilization and Fiscal Commission in Abuja.
Total deductions at source stood at N2,385,690,315, and the balance net inflow at N12,829,675,439.91.

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This is what can be best described as a misplacement of priority! The State government came up with the idea of 'Hero's Park' the other time simply because there are no accessible roads to Azazi's village the other time, instead of rising up to its responsibility Dickson is more concerned about adding 'aesthetics' to Yenagoa.

Same here with Amosun of ogun state.
He built a bridge that is as useless as used condom pack and he is boasting while people are suffering.

I think he's aping Akpabio, forgetting that flyovers are first and foremost for traffic control reasons.....aesthetics is a secondary benefit. Besides, where are the vehicles in Yenagoa to justify this expense? I would have said this was ok if it had been for cities like Owerri, Onitsha, Port Harourt or Aba; they have the need for such given the traffic bottlenecks and holdups witnessed on a daily basis.

If you don go villages for that state you go know say " them really need bridges and flyovers " see water for almost all the villa.God help them.

N15.6 billion worth of aesthetics for Yenogoa !!!
Food don land be dat.
Meanwhile people in the creeks can eat oil oozing out of the pipes.
Awon ole olosa.

They need real bridges over the rivers, not flyovers and definitely not in already developed Yenogoa.

Kingslaw: If you don go villages for that state you go know say " them really need bridges and flyovers " see water for almost all the villa.God help them.

Bacteriocin: Same here with Amosun of ogun state.
He built a bridge that is as useless as used condom pack and he is boasting while people are suffering.

or useless like a condom vending machine in the Vatican city. Lol

why is seriake prickson acting like a hunter's dog that couldn't chase a grasscutter but chose to kill toad, lizard, etc that are not really useful for the hunter

T.A. Orji na im mentor.

Thieves on the loose, i believe the flyover money is not up to that amount they said it is.

Does he want to construct Bayelsa version of 3rd Mainland Bridge or London Bridge?

How much will he thief from the project? And what's the neccessity of this flyover or is this man sick?.

How can I buy Julius Berger shares....

When the clueless governs, such stories make head lines.

Bacteriocin: Same here with Amosun of ogun state.
He built a bridge that is as useless as used condom pack and he is boasting while people are suffering.

What a lame conclusion. The flyovers constructed by Amosun are needed ones you ediot.

This is a welcome development i must say. This will help ease up the traffic gridlock at tombia junction axis.

And to think AIT has flooded the airwaves with 'Dickson is working' propaganda of recent!
One would have thought he would seek to create flood barriers and expand flood channels [if those even exist]
That he would mandate a team to go learn from the Dutch and other countries which are under sea level
But hey, what else do you expect, when one has fish oil in lieu of brain cells?

If im like make im build tins as useles efifel tower of france or as useful as world trade center, as far im provide employment for my 170 milions black brothers, no wahala, as far as the project is completed, no problem, because surely it wil be useful one day.

Halve of that money will go for gej 2015 planed election... Foooools

another washy project, pdp - share the money.

Well! I have read all your comments above and realized y'all don't even know Yenagoa. I'm a motorist who lives in Yenagoa. The G'vnor might have used the wrong word "AESTHETICS" but that does not mean that we don't need such infrastructures in Yenagoa. Since the ban on Okada was implemented in August last year, there has been an unprecedented increase in motor vehicles in Yenagoa which has also generated serious unprecedented traffic snarls in those areas mentioned. Most especially, the traffic hold up around that Tombia roundabout has become suddenly terrible that motorists now take one way (drive against traffic on the other lane) during such snarls & this happens on a daily basis. Although, of course, the cost might be astronomical high which we all must agree, but those bridges are a necessity.

So if you don't live in Yenagoa and don't know what the current traffic situation in Yenagoa is right now, just STFU and leave us to develop our state the way it pleases us. SMH for all o' ya.

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Flyboy Zee: Well! I have read all your comments above and realized y'all don't even know Yenagoa. I'm a motorist who loves on Yenagoa. The G'vnor might have used the wrong word "AESTHETICS" but that does not mean that we don't need such infrastructures on Yenagoa. Since the ban on Okada was implemented on August last year, there has been an unprecedented increase in motor vehicles in Yenagoa which has also generated serious unprecedented traffic snarls in those areas mentioned. Most especially, the traffic hold up around that Tombia roundabout has become suddenly terrible that motorists now take oneway during such snarls & this happens on a daily basis. Although, of course, the cost might be astronomical which we all must agree, but those bridges are a necessity.

So if you don't live on Yenagoa and don't know what the current traffic situation on Yenagoa is right now, just STFU and leave us to develop our state the way it pleases us. SMH for all o' ya.

In your thinking you have made a contribution to the discussion Chei! My Niger delta people... Time don leave una behind

i was thinking this project will be connecting interior villages like all those in southern Ijaw and others, but its so surprising that its just yenagoa.
Governor, what about the roads/brideges to connect those interior villages to the state capital?
Why are some people kept in isolation? Is it that they are not Bayelsans?

Please look deep into Bayelsa and lets have a lasting answer and solution.

Bad belle people. non Bayelsans are telling Bayelesans that thy don't deserve flyovers in their state. whereas some sycophants celebrated a bridge in Ogun state. the thread was almost up to ten pages of praise singing and political party superiority. Dickson wants to develop the state and some folks are condemning the idea claiming that Bayelsa don't need or deserve such project. some folks are just plain silly or maybe it is just ITK. I'm not from bayelsa but i just don't condemn things coz I'm not connected to it. Such attitude is witchcraft.

Omo_Tier1:
In your thinking you have made a contribution to the discussion Chei! My Niger delta people... Time don leave una behind

What is your own contribution? I guess you don't even know which road leads to Bayelsa from wherever you live, yet, the first thing you do online is to challenge anything that you myopically don't know anything about. I'm a Bayelsan, working in and around Bayelsa, but resident in Yenagoa, so I know what we Bayelsans want and need at this time. Its better you take that your silly shittty piece of advice to your own state G'vnor & leave us in Bayelsa alone with our G'vnor and our Flyovers. We in Yenagoa aren't complaining. So please, Get the F**K off.

joe4christ2008: i was thinking this project will be connecting interior villages like all those in southern Ijaw and others, but its so surprising that its just yenagoa.
Governor, what about the roads/brideges to connect those interior villages to the state capital?
Why are some people kept in isolation? Is it that they are not Bayelsans?

Please look deep into Bayelsa and lets have a lasting answer and solution.

FYI, immediately HSD was sworn in as G'vnor, the first thing he did was to reactivate and re-award contracts for those roads leading to the rural arrears in the three senatorial zones in the state. One was awarded to Julius Berger PLC, another to CCECC and the third one to one Dantata & Sawoe. So now Mr. whats your beef with the Gov. Fashola is working, right? I was in Badagry in the first week of December, 2012 and was miffed by what I saw. There was actually no development going on there. Let ask. Is Badagry not a part of Lagos? No wonder Jesus said, we refuse to remove the logs in our eyes, but yet we complain of the specks in other people's eyes. More over, so people in Yenagoa, which is the hub of government, social, economic and political activities in the state should suffer from traffic gridlocks and waste valuable man hours in traffic while there are roads that nobody plies to the rural arrears. Is that your thinking?

ochukoccna: And to think AIT has flooded the airwaves with 'Dickson is working' propaganda of recent![if those even exist]

What then would you say of G'vnors Amaechi and Rochas who practically live on AIT.

ochukoccna: One would have thought he would seek to create flood barriers and expand flood channels [if those even exist]
That he would mandate a team to go learn from the Dutch and other countries which are under sea level
But hey, what else do you expect, when one has fish oil in lieu of brain cells?

This flood that happened in 2012 affected a lot of state and not Bayelsa alone. FYI, Lagos remains the State in Naija with the lowest elevation. It rains very hard in Bayelsa all year round, yet there are no floods until last year's disaster. How many of those things you recommenede has the Lagos State G'ment put in place. More over such projects don't come cheap.

blink182: When the clueless governs, such stories make head lines.

What has been your contribution to your immediate community, not to talk of your Local Government or State, Mr. Clues.

bankoleben: This is what can be best described as a misplacement of priority! The State government came up with the idea of 'Hero's Park' the other time simply because there are no accessible roads to Azazi's village the other time, instead of rising up to its responsibility Dickson is more concerned about adding 'aesthetics' to Yenagoa.

Visit those places mentioned in Yenagoa and come back and make a comment. I'm waiting for your comment.

some are just out to speak against pdp states,some pdp states are working more than lagos.the man Wants to develop state capital & pple are complaining, why?