EPZ Land Controversy: ICM carpets Etoromi on alleged fraudulent judgment

Radical Itsekiri Socio-Cultural group, Itsekiri Consolidated Movement, ICM has berated the Seipakumor of Gbaramatu, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, Lt. Col. Satchie Etoromi (rtd) over statements credited to him that Itsekiri claim of ownership of Ikpokpo Community, Ugborodo in Warri South-West is due to alleged fraudulent court judgment.

 The ICM in a swift reaction described Chief Etoromi’s outburst as “a slap on the Nigerian Judiciary and one motivated by frustration over his non recognition by the Warri Monarch, insisting that “if there is anything called fraudulently obtained judgment, Chief Etoromi  is a major beneficiary as majority of the contracts he has executed as community representative, particularly through his biological affinity with Itsekiri are products of his alleged fraudulently obtained judgments”.

The group’s statement which was signed by its Chairman and Public Relations Officer, Messrs Oritsegbegbemi Besidone and Franklin Metsese sought to know why Chief Etoromi who stated that he is from Itsekiri has “continually made himself a tool of ethnic disharmony by the Gbaramatu Ijaws?”

According to the ICM, Chief Etoromi’s insinuation in reference to a purported letter written by the Itsekiri Leaders of Thought in December 29, 1984 to the effect that they (Itsekiris) allowed their land to be occupied by the Ijaw as a price the Itsekiri had to pay in the interest of peace and progress in the defunct Warri Division, is a clear indication of “a strategic script by Chief Etoromi’s pay masters to deceitfully and forcefully take Itsekiri lands at every slightest opportunity in the name of peace in Warri”.

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