By ABIRHIRE THOMAS
Commodore Omatseye Nesiama (Rtd), Delta South Senatorial District candidate under the platform of New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP), on Monday, said he was running for Senate to redefine how legislation is done.
Nesiama said this while addressing journalists during a press briefing held at the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Correspondent Chapel, Warri, Delta State.
He noted that the reason Nigeria is where it is today is because the present legislators in the National Assembly have refused to carry out their duties of checks and balances.
The retired military officer said the legislature has refused to hold the executive accountable for not performing its duty, adding that this is why he has decided to join politics.
According to the business mogul, Nigerians have been made to believe that they do not have hope as they are beginning to get used to hopelessness.
He, however, said it was high time Nigerians rose from their slumber and rediscover themselves with a view to developing the country by their capacity to choose credible persons with high integrity as their leaders in 2023.
He said if voted as senator to represent the good people of Delta South Senatorial District, he would ensure promotion of and support for legislations that will attract viable programmes, projects for development of the people and communities in Delta South Senatorial District.
He said he would also ensure that constituency project funds would be tied to human capital development where people are carried along and the projects and programmes “visible to even the blind.”
On the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), Nesiama said if elected as a Senator, he would ensure that through accountable representation and functional constituency engagement and feedback, the PIA will be implemented strictly for the betterment of the people.
“We must get it right through decommissioning and abandonment funds, environmental remediation funds, and other aspects of the Petroleum Industry Act. This I will do through legislation, relegislation, and engagement around the PIA framework for governance, administration, fiscal and host community provisions,” Nesiama added.
Nesiama, who led the initial ECOMOG landing operation, which provided required intelligence that enabled the ECOMOG forces take-over the strategic Liberian Port of Buchan from the Charles Taylor rebel forces in April 1993, said he will influence, promote and encourage tourism, sports development and mass participation events for improved welfare, youths engagement and other attendant benefits.
As a sport Administrator, Nesiama said if elected he would promote and encourage sports development through mass participation of youths in sporting activities in both the rural and urban areas.
He called on the people of Delta South Senatorial District to vote for people who are capable of giving them quality representation irrespective of which political party they belong to.
