By Samuel Oyadongha

Yenagoa— Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, yesterday, explained the reason for the sack of two female political appointee and the redeployment of two others in his cabinet, saying it was part of efforts to ensure service delivery and fulfillment of his restoration agenda.

Dickson,in a statement by his Chief Press Secetary, Mr. Daniel Markson-Iworiso, noted that the minor cabinet reshuffle was in furtherance of his commitment to deliver more robustly on his administration’s restoration agenda.

The minor cabinet reshuffle witnessed the sack of the Commissioner for Local Government Administration, Mrs. Marie Ebikake and the Special Adviser on Federal Projects, Chief Remi Kuku.

Those redeployed include the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Deacon Markson Fefegha, who was redeployed to the Government House as the Principal Executive Secretary to the Governor with immediate effect.

He takes over from Douye Diri, who resigned and has since emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate for Yenagoa-Kolokuma-Opokuma federal constituency in next month’s House of Representatives election.

Also affected was the Chief of Staff, Government House, Dame Didi Walson-Jack, who was on final de-secondment and has gone back to the Federal Civil Service, after three years of outstanding and meritorious service to the state and the restoration government.