Fear of loosing Ogbe-Ijoh Market grips Ijaws in Warri

Fear of loosing Ogbe-Ijoh Market grips Ijaws in Warri.

Mtrs. Queen Ajemitolu, former market Mistress

Ogbe-Ijoh Market Warri, Current member, Market management committee.

Delta youths under the auspices of Meibutu has expressed fear of loosing the only Ijaw Owned Market in Warri, Warri-South Local Government Area of Delta State.

The youths yesterday expressed panic of loosing Ogbe-Ijoh market to the Urhobo's in warri, following their refusal to cooperate with current market management arrangement put in place by the council Chairman, Hon Michael Tidi.

A representative of Meibutu leadership group, Comrade Lot Loyibo in a statement to Newsmen yesterday at the Ogbe-Ijoh Market, Warri. Said, "This Market has not been completed, this market has been abandoned by the government for the past decades and different ethnic groups has been fighting Ijaw people that they are not the rightful owners of the market."

"Agbasa people are claiming ownership, the Warri South LG is causing confusion by sending a market master that we do not know to the market that is not yet completed and commission by the government."

FOCALPOINT gathered that Authorities of Warri South Local Government Council is currently overseeing the administration of the Ogbe-Ijoh Market, Warri, with its inaugurated nine-member management committee which have Comrade Godwin Eneghan as chairman.

However, the Market Management Committee MMC Chairman has expressed worry that the Urhobo traders in the market refused to cooperate with the arrangement put in place by the chairman of Warri South Local Government council, Dr. Michael Tidi.

A member of the market commitee Mrs. Queen Ajemitolu, lamented that, ''the Urhobo traders and some other traders constituted themselves into what is know as Ogbe-Ijoh Market traders association OMTA to work against the constituted management.

''That they have splited Ogbe-Ijoh market into Ijaw and Urhobo section and Ijaw have lost it rightful place of being a host community to the Ogbe-Ijoh market.

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