Delta Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has charged authorities of Delta State Local Content Agency to enthrone transparency and strict adherence to enabling law in its operations to enable it to attain its mandate.
The governor gave the charge on Thursday in Asaba while inaugurating the Director-General of the agency, Mr Morris Idiovwa.
He disclosed that the agency was the creation of the Delta State Local Content Agency Law promulgated on Sept. 16, 2020, and stated that the inauguration of the director-general signaled the formal take-off of the agency.
He urged the director-general to be transparent, selfless, disciplined, fair and firm and focus on the goals of the agency.
Okowa explained that local content was the value that companies or industries brought to national and sub-national economies.
According to him, such value is assessed in terms of employment of the locals, sourcing raw materials from the environment in which the companies operate and patronising local contractors as a matter of obligation.
“This is especially so when it involves extractive industries. Aside from employment generation, available evidence indicates that local content development engenders industrialization, facilitates economic inclusion and enhances the ease of doing business.