Principal Security Officer To Governor Excites Peretorugbene Community With Football Tourney

The Principal Security Officer to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, Mr. Ebi Okoyen (CSP) excites people of Peretorugbene and its neighbouring communities with a 5-Aside football tournament to further attract tourism to the community in the Yuletide season.

Mr. Ebi Okoyen who hails from Peretorugbene Community in Bayelsa State described the   football tourney as “ intriguing and unifying” noted that the 5-Aside football competition amongst teams in the competition is hosted to further push the frontiers of peace and unity amongst members of the community.

Mr. Ebi Okoyen who is the sponsor of the competition has used the tourney to caution youths of Peretorugbene community to shun violence, crime, criminality and the use of illicit drugs that will endanger their well-being.

Mr. Okoyen said that the game is designed basically for amateur players and not different from futsal game. 

“Not every footballer will play at the professional level and not every player will dorn the colours of the national team. That is why five-a-side football is here to give opportunity for more youths in my community to play football and excite themselves in these Yuletide season”.

The Principal Security Officer while admonishing members of Peretorugbene community to be selfless in the discharge of their duties in the community , also charged them to play politics with all sense of responsibility and not to indulge in carrying of arms, ammunition and brigandage.

While throwing more light on the importance and role education play in the development of a community, Mr. Okoyen added that youths should mobilise themselves and forge ahead to involve in entrepreneurial skill acquisition and human capacity development programs that will make them self-employed and employers of labour.

Mr. Ebi Okoyen who in his years of service as a police officer has used his network to employ and engaged most youths into the various categories of security forces and public service from his community and beyond, has encouraged leaders and elites of the community to always strife to draw development programs that will add value to the youths and not only to milk their accounts with the resources from the community and to further to engage the youths positively as against making them political weapons only in times of elections.