Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Seriake Dickson, on Thursday set up a committee to begin preparations for the burial rites of the former Governor of the state, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, who died at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), on Saturday.
Dickson in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said the committee was constituted at an enlarged emergency State Executive Council meeting in Government House, Yenagoa.
The governor promised to give the late Alamieyeseigha a state burial.
The committee has the deputy Governor, Rear Admiral John Jonah (rtd) as its Chairman, the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Kombowei Benson, Vice-Chairman with the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Edmund Alison-Oguru, as Secretary.
Other members of the committee are – Senator Foster Ogola, member of the House of Representatives, Henry Ofongo; Commissioners of Information and Orientation, Health, Works and Infrastructure and Culture and Ijaw National Affairs.
Also included in the list are – the Chief of Staff, Government House, Yenagoa and the Principal Executive Secretary to the Governor.
Others are the State Chairman, Secretary, Woman and Youth Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), representatives of the Alamieyeseigha family, the Ijaw National Congress (INC), the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Chief Thompson Okorotie, Prof. Steve Azaiki, the Chief Historian and Archivist of the State.
Dickson, who had earlier declared a seven day state mourning for late Alamieyeseigha, enjoined Bayelsans to come together to give him a befitting burial.
He described the period as trying times for the state and the deceased’s immediate family.
He said the state and the Ijaw nation lost a major leader and pillar, adding that the vacuum created by his departure would be difficult to fill.
Dickson said Alamieyeseigha laid a solid foundation for the development of the state.
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