Checkout the Elaborate Burial Plan for Late Alamieseigha

 

Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, has set up a committee to plan an elaborate burial for the late former governor of the state, Chief Diepreye Alamieseigha, who recently passed on at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, last weekend.

 

Dickson promised that the former governor would be given a state burial.

 

A statement by the chief press secretary to the Governor, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said Dickson, constituted the committee at an enlarged emergency State Executive Council meeting in Government House.

 

The committee has the state’s Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah, (rtd), as chairman. Others members include the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Kombowei Benson (vice chairman) and secretary to the State Government, Prof. Edmund Alison-Oguru as secretary.

 

The committee also has the following persons as members: Senator Foster Ogola; member of the House of Representatives, Henry Ofongo; Commissioners for Information and Orientation; Health; Works and Infrastructure and Culture and Ijaw National Affairs.

 

The list also includes 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, the Ijaw Youth Council, Chief Thompson Okorotie, Prof. Steve Azaiki, the chief historian and archivist of the state.

 

Dickson had earlier declared a seven-day state mourning for late Alamieyeseigha.