Yakowa: Bayelsa holds special session

Dickson, Yakowa at the funeral Saturday will hold a special valedictory session in honour of late Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State Tuesday, 18 December. Yakowa died in Saturday’s helicopter crash in the state In a statement signed by the stateCommissioner for Information, Mr Markson Fefegha, in Yenagoa on Monday, the session would hold at the Government House. “The State Government will, thereafter, send a delegation of top government functionaries to accompany the casket of the governor to Kaduna where it will be formally handed over to Kaduna State,’’ he said. The commissioner said that an enlarged Bayelsa Government delegation, to be led by GovernorSeriake Dickson, is expected to visit Kaduna on 19 December to participate in the funeral taking place on 20 December.