Governor Diri appoints new head of civil service

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has appointed Dr. Wisdom Ebiye Sawyer as the new Head of the state’s civil service.

The appointment was announced in a statement issued on Tuesday, September 2, in Yenagoa by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Alabrah.

Dr. Sawyer, who was until now Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, takes over from Biobelemoye Charles-Onyema, who retired on Sunday, August 31.

Born on May 14, 1970, in Odi community, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area, Sawyer joined the Bayelsa State Civil Service on June 8, 1998, as a medical officer.

He attended Town School, Okrika, and Okrika Grammar School in Rivers State, before earning his MBBS degree from the University of Port Harcourt in 1996.

He went on to obtain a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Lagos in 2000 and later a Part II Fellowship in Public Health from the National Post-Graduate Medical College, Lagos, in 2010.

Sawyer has also completed and defended his dissertation for a PhD in Clinical Sciences and Public Health at Niger Delta University.

He is a member of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies.