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Speaking to newsmen
shortly after a brief meeting with some
management staff of the company at the State
House of Assembly Complex on Thursday, chairman
of the committee, Deacon Otobo Noah Opusiri,
reiterated that it was imperative that companies
operating in the state comply with the local
content policy of the federal government.
The lawmaker, representing Nembe Constituency
III, in the House, frowned at the unwarranted
absence of the company’s project manager,
informing that over thirty two companies are
operating in the state silently without adhering
to the labour laws of the state and that of the
federal government.
According to Deacon Opusiri, the House Committee
on Labour, Employment and Productivity, would
ensure that Bayelsans were given employment in
these companies in line with the local content
policy of the federal government.
He said the committee was interested in how many
Bayelsans were being employed by the companies
at all levels of their operations, reiterating
that the companies must show a documentary proof
of their compliance with the local content
policy.
Deacon Opusiri said the State House of Assembly
would not take any excuses from companies that
employ non indigenes to the detriment of Bayelsa
state indigenes, as provided for in the local
content policy document of the federal
government.
In their separate remarks, the deputy leader of
the House, Chief Hawkins Kalabo, representing
Southern Ijaw constituency II and Chief Victor
Sam-Ateki, representing Brass constituency I,
lamented that, though several companies operate
in the state, Bayelsans are being denied
employment opportunities, rather, non indigenes
are being employed in the place of Bayelsans,
contrary to the good intents and purposes of the
local content policy of the federal government.
It would be recalled that the House Committee on
Labour, Employment and Productivity had invited
the project manager of Daewoo DN57 last week,
along with other management staff, to appear
before the committee on February 4th, 2010
(Thursday), but the project manager was absent
at the meeting, which made the House Committee
to issue a six days ultimatum to the project
manager to appear before it or face the wrath of
the House.
Following the absence of the project manager,
Mr. Beck, the House Committee had asked the
other management staff who turned up for the
meeting to go back and come with the project
manager by Wednesday next week.
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