Journey To Yenagoa At A Time Like This By Reuben Abati IN 2000, I visited Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa state. I was beside myself with laughter as we drove into this rural community, with a linear row of buildings and a rustic, rutty skyline. There was only one major road, a funny stretch of bitumen and sand, with local girls and women standing in front of modest shelters. That single road, I was told led straight to the Atlantic Ocean and to nowhere else. There were two or three make-shift petrol stations which looked like abandoned projects. Didn't see too many banks. May be three: Allstates, Union Bank, and First Bank. Nothing to suggest that this was the capital of a state. Obviously, so many developmental efforts in that part of the country must have been forgotten in the famous, proverbial pipeline. The only sign of affluence belonged to one senior retired military official who hails from Delta and the locals talked abo...
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