Delta Land Dispute: Mulade Cautions Against Selling Benikrukru Land

WARRI: Gbaramatu Kingdom, born renowned global peace ambassador and development advocate, Comrade Mulade Sheriff, has called on the good and peace loving people of Benikrukru Community in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local of Delta State to kindly desist and avoid laying a wrong precedent in the community and Gbaramatu Kingdom at large.

Chief Mulade, who is the Ibe-Serimowei of Ancient Gbaramatu Kingdom, gave the advice over the weekend and cautioned the leadership of the community led by Comrade Joel Tonjoh to be careful and not to trade with the future of our yet unborn generations.

He made this position known, against the backdrop of an ongoing attempt by the Comrade Joel Tonjoh-led leadership of the Benikrukru community in attempt to sell off certain portions of lands measuring over four hundreds acres, in a most clandestine, suspicious, unpatriotic and dubious manner, devoid of any historical or cultural antecedents.

The Benikrukru born environmental rights activist, hereby call on the Pere of Gbaramatu Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Oboro Gbaraun II and Elders of Benikrukru community to call the Comrade Joel Tonjoh and his Executives to order, halt and desist from attempting to sell any parcel or part of Benikrukru land under any disguise; and that, Benikrukru Community should rather encourage and support any of her son or daughter who has the capacity to attract investors and development to the area. "I strongly advise that we should support any of our indigenes who have the capacity to attract and woo investors to Gbaramatu Kingdom, especially Benikrukru Community," he said.

"I want to emphasize that, the community ought to, and should demonstrate gratitude to one of our own (Name withheld), who has contributed immensely to the growth and development of the community and bringing the community to limelight, and should be given land to invest freely, as an equity stake contributions, in support of his investment drive, and not the other way round by selling. This would be a very laudable encouragement to this illustrious son of ours and many others, "he opined.

"I strongly think that no amount of poverty, ignorance, and 'stomach infrastructures' should allow us to condescend so low in-spite of his huge contributions to the community development and we should avoid doing things that are inimical to natural justice and fair play.

It is imperative to state clearly that Benikrukru Community land in Gbaramatu Kingdom belongs to all sons and daughters with inalienable rights. Therefore, no individual should be subjected or denial of such rights, and such that is capable of generating crisis and litigation in the nearest future.

The Benikrukru community born, Ibe-Serimowei of Gbaramatu Kingdom, strongly appealed to the community to support and contribute to investment drive as community equity contributions to our people, rather than selling any part or parcel of land. "Let it equally be on record that any purported sells Deeds of Conveyance will be resisted with every available legal means," he asserted.

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