Idahosa unveils
The Fall of The Last Godfather Bayelsa to review chieftaincy, community administration law
FORMER Edo State Commissioner for Information, Charles Idahosa, yesterday, unveiled a book titled: The Fall Of The Last Godfather, which chronicles activities that heralded the September 19, 2020 governorship election in the state. He said he had expended his intellectual energy with different media houses and journalists canvassing, defending, rationalising and supporting Governor Godwin Obaseki’s second term bid to govern Edo State.
Briefing newsmen in Benin City on the publication, he said: “The essence of this little but mighty book is probably to make it the last of such fights or to remind other godfathers that they never end well, because they are profoundly immoral, iniquitous and ignoble.”
He pointed out that fights among godfathers and godsons were usually caused by sundry reasons, including, but not limited to greed, selfishness and insatiable desire for exclusive control of the public treasury and political patronage.
According to Idahosa, who also served as political adviser to former Governor Adams Oshiomhole, said the book was available in leading bookshops across the country, as well as in the Abuja, Benin, Lagos and Port Harcourt airports.
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AYELSA State Government has announced plans to review its chieftaincy, community and administration law to enable traditional rulers to contribute more effectively to good governance and development of their domains.
Deputy Governor, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, who disclosed this at a meeting with traditional rulers in Southern Ijaw
Council, said the review was necessitated by the need to promote peace and development in the communities.
A statement by his Senior Special Assistant, Doubara Atasi, quoted the Deputy Governor as saying that there were some lapses that needed to be addressed in the current chieftaincy and community administration law.
Ewhrudjakpo assured the people of Southern Ijaw and other communities that the government was concerned about their welfare and would do everything possible to ensure that they got their due from the government and companies operating in their areas.
He charged traditional rulers to identify basic social amenities needed in their areas and send their requests to his office for government to take necessary action within the limits of available resources. He also stressed the need for communities to involve government in the preparation and signing of Global Memorandum of Understanding ( GMOUS) with companies operating in their areas to avoid the problems usually associated with the implementation of such agreements.
Ewhrudjakpo frowned on the situation where GMOUS were signed without government’s involvement, only to be brought to its attention when conflicts arise.