Bayelsa Plastic Industry Still Lying In Akimbo

 

More than fourteen  years after that  the Bayelsa State Plastic industry was established and it worked for few years the industry now  is dead without any trace that a plastic industry was once situated in that premises.

 

  The factory formerly located along the Elebele area of the state has been stripped   off all the machines and the hall that once house the machines also stripped of the corrugated iron sheets which were used for the roofing.

 

 A check last week by crystalnewsonline  showed that the hall initially hosting the factory was empty with nothing at on ground to show that machines were once mounted in the hall.

 

 Also the zinc sheets and the irons used for the building of the hall were plucked away while the premises has been taken over by weeds.

 

Recall, that Bayelsa Plastic Industry was established around 2010 by Timipre Sylva, former Governor of the state to manufacture plastics, polytene bags and other plastic materials.

 

 It however worked briefly during the time of Henry Dickson with more than 1000 staff. Even though, it had some challenges but it was still functional until the current governor Douye Diri came on board in 2020 and concession the industry to a private firm who totally killed it.

 

 This group of journalists had visited the factory sometime two years ago and met the factory in a sorry state but was surprised to see that after all the reportage and calling the attention of the government the sorry state of that factory, nothing was done until when the whole machines were looted.

 

Speaking with the commissioner currently in charge of Ministry of Trade, Industry and Investment in the state, Ebieri Jones on phone on the state of the industry, he asked, what was happening there now.

 

 He said: “As a journalist, it is your duty to tell me what is happening there. I will go there and check. It is not only that work that I’m doing.

 

“As if it is only Bayelsa Plastic that I will focus on. We are looking for investors not all those ones. Please I’m new, give me time let me settle down.”