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BAYELSA Stat e Governor Senator Douye Diri, has charged the new management of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board ( NCDMB) to improve on its performance, saying his administration will continue to support the organisation’s effort to develop local content.

Diri stated this when the recently appointed board members, led by the Executive Secretary Mr. Felix OmasholaOgbe, paid him a courtesy visit , in Government

Yenagoa.

A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, quoted the governor as saying that as the host state, the Bayelsagovernmentwillcooperate and partner with the NCDMB to ensure it achieves its set objectives.

Diri congratulated the executive secretary and the board members on their appointment by President Bola Tinubu, urging them to per

House, form optimally in order to change the narrative in the country’s oil and gas sector. He also charged the management to be guided by the agitations that resulted in the establishmentof theorganization.

The Bayelsa helmsman stressed that the Niger Delta people, who constituted the local content of the oil industry, must take the driver’s seat, tasking the board to make that one of its goals.

In his remarks, the NCDMB Executive Secretary, Mr. Felix Omashola- Ogbe, who said the visit was to officially introduce the newly constituted board to the governor, pledged their willingness to continue the partnership with the Bayelsa State government. Omashola- Ogbe promised that the new management would continue and complete projects inherited from previous administrations in order to have a successful tenure.