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Governor Dickson Refuses To Present Bayelsa’s Financial Records To Lyon’s Transition Committee

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The Bayelsa state government transition committee set up by the outgoing governor, Seriake Dickson on Friday, January 3, 2020, informed its counterpart from the All Progressives Congress, APC, that it has no financial record of the state under the administration of Dickson to present.

It would be recalled that on the 5th of December 2019, the governor-elect of Bayelsa state, His Excellency Chief David Pereworimini Lyon wrote to intimate the outgoing governor, Henry Seriake Dickson of the 59 man Transition Committee he has put in place for the purpose of ensuring a smooth, hitch-free transition and handover.

In furtherance of the mandate given to the APC Transition Committee, it was said to have written to its counterpart from the outgoing administration, requesting for the financial records of Gov. Dickson’s two terms in office.

A source revealed that the Dickson-constituted transition committee in its response to the APC’s demand for the financial records of the state under the two terms of the outgoing governor stated its inability to supply the state’s financial records for the period under review on the non-availability of the state’s financial records as requested, with the claim that it is working assiduously to make it available and its availability would be subject to approval from the outgoing governor.

Ebiye Michael, a member of the APC, queried the report. He said: “This development is not only disappointing but suspect, giving that the Dickson-led administration had prided itself as a transparent government. Wherein lies the much-touted transparency of the Dickson-led government if it could not make available its financial records?”

According to a source, the governor-elect, his excellency David Lyon has resolved be make public the financial state of the State after his swearing-in on February 14, 2020.

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