By Bisola Adeyemo
The Bayelsa State Government has on Monday approved the use of town criers and other traditional means of communication to disseminate government’s message on the ongoing urban renewal programe in Yenagoa.
Commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Chief Ayiba Duba, made this known in an interview in Yenagoa, the state capital.
“Our efforts in using the traditional organs of mass communication has not been very effective in changing the behavioural patterns of the people.
“The task before us in the ministry in charge of information, orientation and strategy is enormous .We are putting finishing touches in the plan and we have to rely on the use of our local dialects.
“We are trying to ensure that the messages and media of communicating them all align with existing media laws,” Duba said.
He said that the ministry had acquired buses mounted with public address systems to disseminate the messages, Environews reports.
Duba said that the ministry would also engage layers of community and opinion leaders in the various communities on the policy.
The commissioner said that the state government had the political will to pursue the policy to a logical conclusion and give the state capital a befitting status.
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