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<\/p>\nUtomi was sworn in as Commissioner, while Almona-Isei and Gbagi were sworn in as Special Advisers.<\/p>\n
Okowa charged them to bring on board their brilliance in furthering the state\u2019s development.<\/p>\n
According to NAN, their specific offices were not named at the swearing-in ceremony.<\/p>\n
The governor, who performed the ceremony in Asaba, charged the appointees to key into the developmental framework of his administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thrust of our policies and programmes is clear and focused, and that is, empowerment, job and wealth creation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are committed to building infrastructure that can support economic growth and an economically integrated state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Governor urged them to contribute to positive development in the state, for the common good.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet it be known loud and clear that service to the people is the best opportunity to serve God,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Okowa assured the people that the developmental programmes of his administration would get to every community in the state.<\/p>\n
Responding on behalf of the appointees, Utomi thanked the Governor for finding them fit to serve in his administration.<\/p>\n
He assured the Governor that they would serve the government and the people of the state selflessly and to the best of their abilities.\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State on Wednesday swore in three new appointees, Chief Joseph Utomi, Mrs Mercy Almona-Isei and Chief Kenneth Gbagi. Utomi was sworn in as Commissioner, while Almona-Isei and Gbagi were sworn in as Special Advisers. Okowa charged them to bring on board their brilliance in furthering the state\u2019s development. According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5225,7492],"class_list":["post-61470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-delta-state","tag-ifeanyi-okowa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}