Launch Into The Oil/Gas Industry: CJ Advises Bayelsa Women.

 

Matilda  Ayemieye, the Chief Judge of Bayelsa State,   has called on

Bayelsa women  in particular and Niger Delta women in general to up

their ante and  launch out in order to meet up with what women from

other parts of country are doing in the oil and gas industry.

 The chief judge said that Bayelsa women were still lagging behind

when it gets to the issues of oil and gas industry stating that other

women from the East and West have taken over the oil and gas industry.

 Speaking in Yenagoa on Wednesday when   a women group known as

Bayelsa women economic inclusion committee on petroleum industry act

(BWEIC) paid her in courtesy call, she maintained that there are so

many opportunities in the oil and gas industry especially for women

regretting that Bayelsa women were yet to even know about them talk

more of exploring the opportunities.

 She advised the BEIWEC that their impact will be felt more in the oil

and gas industry declaring that it was only when they launch out and

mix up with other women from other parts of the country that their

impact will be felt.

 She asked the group to start doing something with their resources

first adding when the state government see their effort, it can now

make an input.

 Disclosing that no one will take the group serious if they don’t

start making impact, she advised that they should take advantage of

most of the trainings and talk shows being organized for women to

build themselves and grow experience wise.

  She said “We as women must help ourselves. You need to go a bit

further to see where you can excel and be visible. You must find out

where you can work and be visible since you want to be include in this

oil and gas business.

“You are not going to wait for government. You ought to take something

to government because if you continue to wait, you will wait for

eternity.  You cannot be on paper alone you must also be practical in

your actions.

 “First of all, I want to you to go and study the PIA very well and

know where the women will be relevant.

 Speaking earlier, the co chairman of the group, Elizabeth Egbe had

hinted the chief judge of what the group is all about stating that the

committee supposed to make sure that 3% of the funds from the PIA gets

to the women in the host communities.

 Also that 30% of the board members of all the management boards contain women.

 She said “We have come to hint you about the Bayelsa women economic

inclusion committee on PIA ( BWEIC) and to congratulate you on your

appointment as the chief judge of Bayelsa State.

 “Bayelsa women have a lot to offer. We are asking   for the

opportunity and the enabling environment to contribute our quota in

the oil and gas industry through the PIA implementation.

“Bayelsa women are blessed and they are industrious and highly

educated but when you go to outside, you can hardly see us because we

don’t have that enabling environment to fly and execute what God has

blessed us with.

“We have been looking opportunities to expose us and I know that if

Bayelsa women are given that exposure and enablement, we will be able

to shine and make impact where ever we find ourselves.

“After inaugurating this committee in August last year, not much has

been done. We have not been given the push that we need to do work.

“We are supposed to go to communities to create awareness for the

women to be appointed to the boards but we have not done anything

because of lack of the necessary logistics to work.

Recall that this committee was inaugurated last year August by the deputy governor of Bayelsa State, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo but up tillnow, the committee was yet to do anything because of lack of logisticst o start work.