Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State, has said offering palliatives was not the lasting solution to the economic hardship in the country.
Diri made the remark when he spoke during the Easter Sunday service at the St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Sampou in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of the state
The governor in a statement said even though he was not against palliatives, he was more concerned with putting in place the right structures and systems to address the economic challenges.
He said his administration was initiating policies and programmes that would bring about long-term empowerment to people of the state rather than short-term palliatives.
According to him, the government was tackling manpower shortage and the skills challenge by establishing technical colleges in the eight local government areas, embarking on skills acquisition programmes, building roads to connect the hinterlands as well as other infrastructure that would bring socio-economic empowerment to the people.
