
28 Years After Creation, Bayelsa Seek Additional 25 LGAs
Bayelsa State has made a request for the creation of 25 additional local government areas separate from the existing eight in the state.
The state also proposed fiscal federalism, establishment of state police, electoral as well as judicial reforms.
The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Biriyai Dambo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, presented the state’s position at the ongoing public hearing organised by the South South Centre A (comprising Bayelsa, Delta and Edo) of the House of Representatives’ Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution at the DSP Alamieyeseigha Banquet Hall in Yenagoa on Saturday.
According to Mr. Dambo, creating new councils in the state had become necessary as the extant local government areas were over-populated with some having more th...