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Rivers threatens to acquire disputed land in Ogoni

Rivers threatens to acquire disputed land in Ogoni


The Rivers State Government has threatened to acquire the land at the centre of the communal clash between Bomu and Lewe settlements in Ogoni.

Governor Nyesom Wike government, who deplored the protracted conflict that has claimed several lives, stated that government would be compelled to confiscate the property should the warring parties fail too sheathe their sword.



Giving the threat at the flag-off of the reconstruction of Government Secondary School, Kpor in Gokana Local Council of the state yesterday, the governor noted that after the crisis that culminated in the killing of prominent Ogoni leaders in the 1990s, fratricide should have been considered an unpardonable taboo in the area by now.

“Prominent people in Ogoni have died. You still want to kill the few remaining ones. If I were you people, what had happened to Ogoni should have made everybody to be together, to forget about killing one another again. Are you not tired of killing yourselves?” he queried.

MEANWHILE, the traditional rulers of Andoni Local Council have pleaded with abductors of the 92-year- old paramount ruler of Ayama Ekede Town, King Bibama Ekpirikpo, to release him unconditionally three weeks into his abduction.

Ekpirikpo’s seizure came few weeks after his Ikuru town colleague, King Aaron Ikuru, regained freedom amid a stern warning by his kidnapers for the chiefs and politicians in the area to ensure peace and provide jobs for the teeming youths.



The monarchs made the appeal during a visit to Ekede Town Council of Chiefs where modalities for the release of the nonagenarian were debated.

Speaking during the tour, Chairman of Andoni Traditional Rulers Council, King J. W. Okuruket-Nnabiget, regretted the abduction, describing it as sacrilegious.

He urged the kidnappers to free the elderly monarch and halt further release him and halt further seizure of innocent indigenes.

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