UP GEJ!: NOSDRA Boss Hails Jonathan’s Leadership

 

President Goodluck Jonathan

Chairman of the governing board of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), Major Lancelot Anyanya (rtd.) has hailed President Goodluck Jonathan on his leadership style in solving the myriad problems confronting the nation.

Anyanya, according to a release, spoke after leading a NOSDRA delegation on an inspection of oil spills sites in Omoku, Rivers State. At the palace of the Oba of Ogba land, Eze Chukwuemela Nnam Obi, Anyanya urged Nigerians to support the president’s transformation of the people and environment of Nigeria.

He said: “President Goodluck Jonathan is transforming Nigeria. He is working hard to solve problems the nation has accumulated for decades. Nigeria is changing for the better and in very remarkable ways.”

Noting that oil spills had caused extensive ecological damage to Omoku and Ogbaland, the NOSDRA chief thanked the President for supporting the agency to improve on its community relations with oil producing communities.

“With the harmful consequences of oil spill it is easy to complain about a lack of resources but one resource NOSDRA doesn’t lack is the support, mandate, charge and express directive of President Goodluck Jonathan,” he noted.

“President Goodluck Jonathan believes that not even his ambition is worth the blood of any human being and consistent with that belief and philosophy, he deeply believes that no community or individual should suffer any more of those indignities because Nigeria produces crude oil. This is why NOSDRA is engaging with oil producing communities”, stressed Anyanya.

He also praised the Ogba monarch for “forty-four years of exemplary and selfless leadership,” saying the ruler's “good nature” had raised the bar of leadership for successive generations.

Anyanya thanked the monarch for supporting Jonathan’s leadership, and reminded him that being from an oil-producing community in the state he understood the price the people of the area are paying for the collective prosperity of Nigeria.

Responding, the Oba of Ogbaland commended the NOSDRA team for visiting his kingdom. He presented Anyanya with a symbolic leadership staff of office of the Ogba kingdom.