And more importantly we expect that a new board that will provide the right corporate governance capable of ushering in a new era of development for the Niger Delta region, the commission was setup to achieve in the first place, be inaugurated.
If you travelled to Europe or America, you realize how terribly underdeveloped our country is. I stayed in the U.S. for over a year in 2016/2017 and had the opportunity of visiting a number of states there and saw how widespread their development was. It was like heaven on earth. I spent the most of my time in Chicago, the 3rd largest city in the U.S.
I was actually in the U.S. for the first time for two weeks for such a tour as part of the Executive MBA programme of the Lagos business school which I attended. We visited a number of organizations and they were happy to share a number of things that were of benefit. For instance, we were at the Wiscousin chamber of commerce where I realized that even as developed as they are, they still compete to create jobs for their people.
Hence I was excited to learn in 2018 that Prof Utomi was running for governor of my state, Delta state, for I knew he had capacity to do a great job as governor if he wins and I was prepared to work with him to achieve that outcome, so I joined his campaign. Actually, I first saw in the papers, the visit of traditional rulers/politicians from my ethnic nationality, the Isoko nation, to our dear President to request among other things the need for government to help setup a modular refinery and a gas processing facility in our LGA citing the fact that the 2nd oil well in the country was decovered in Uzere in 1958, in my constituency, after the first in Oloibiri in present Balyesa State, yet the Isoko nation had been left underdeveloped with no...