Okowa receives awards for performance; says administration prioritized peace-building
Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has said his administration prioritized peace-building and partnership among communities to make the state investor-friendly.
He stated this in Asaba on Thursday while receiving awards from oil companies operating in the state, and said that partnership among the companies, communities, and the state government ensured that development was evenly distributed.
The governor pointed out that peace-building was better than crisis management, and urged the incoming administration to sustain meaningful peace-building platforms for the continued development of the state.
Okowa also stated that his administration believed in the partnership with the organizations, saying, “We knew from the beginning that we needed the oil companies and the oil companies needed us and in that warm friendship and partnership we could both thrive better.
 “There are so many levels of partnership we have to build because, from the beginning, we came with the agenda of peace in preference to crises.
 “Peace-building does not totally ensure that there is no crisis, but when there is a crisis, we manage the crisis. We are to build peace to limit the level of crisis, duration of the crisis and we have believed in that.”
Earlier, the leader of the delegation and External Relations Manager of Shell Petroleum Development Company, Mr. Evans Krukrubo, had said that oil companies in the state honoured the governor for his contributions to operational excellence which had made the state investor friendly.
In a related development, two groups – Forum of Presidents-General of Communities in Delta and the Association of Resident Doctors of Delta State University Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH), Oghara, gave awards to the governor for “excellent performance’’ in the state.
The governor urged medical doctors and other health service providers in the state to continue to be committed and dedicated to providing excellent services to the people.
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