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On 28 May 2023, Dickson was conferred with
Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) by Former President Buhari. Dickson was also awarded Excellence in Environmental Leadership Award 2023 by the Global Initiative for Climate and Environmental Sustenance in August 2023
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In April 2011, he was elected for a second term; this election was the first time that someone in his constituency has done this. In his second term, he was appointed
Chairman House Committee on Special Duties.
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and was elected as the
Bayelsa State chapter chairman of the party from 1998 to 2000. The political party produced a senator representing Bayelsa West, a member of the House of Representatives representing
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reported that Henry
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He won his re-election bid to the senate on 25 February 2023 and was named the chairman, of the Senate committee on ecology/ climate change of the 10th senate on 8 August 2023.
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in 1986. Upon his graduation from law school in 1993, he was appointed a cadet assistant superintendent of police in 1994, from where he proceeded to
Nigeria Police Academy,
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Bayelsa West Senatorial Bye-Election with over 80% of the total votes and was sworn in as Senator into the 9th Senate replacing Senator
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Henry Seriake Dickson was born on 28 January 1966 in Toru-Orua Town of
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The Kidnapping and Hostage Taking (Prohibition) Bill, 2009.
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