The younger brother of Coach Samson
Siasia has expressed his desire to contest the Bayelsa State
governorship election next year.
Moses, who spoke at a news conference in
Yenagoa, on Saturday, lamented that Bayelsa had witnessed several
broken promises since its creation in 1996.
The 35-year-old described the
unemployment rate in the state as alarming, saying that 85 per cent of
Bayelsa populace was unemployed.
He said he would contest the governorship election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party later in the year.
He also said the state’s huge monthly
revenues from the Federal Government had not translated into an improved
standard of living among the people of the state.
Siasia, who is a kinsman of the
incumbent Governor Seriake Dickson, said the state needed a productive
machinery to reverse the socio-economic problems allegedly dogging
Bayelsa State.
He said, “Unemployment is taking its
toll on our youths. We have over 85 per cent of Bayelsa youths
unemployed. How do we create employment for our teeming youths that have
been impoverished by successive governments and that have become
disillusioned?”
“Now, we need to create a great
industrial and education revolution in Bayelsa. Today, I have spoken
with some of my partners that would be encouraged to create jobs in the
state – as soon as I get the mandate.
“In one year, we can create 20,000 jobs.
You don’t give what you don’t have. I have created jobs before. I am
doing it now in my business. So, if I am saddled with public office, I
can do more for our people. What we have are people who have not created
jobs anywhere. They don’t even understand the dynamics of creating jobs
for the people.
“We need a leadership mindset that can
transform the state and make it an economic hub, a marine hub. Today,
the world is talking about blue sea economy, where people can use
marine. Government can use the marine sector and create massive jobs and
industrialisation for their people and that is what we going to do.”
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