Kpokpo Community faults Oborogbeyi over Madangho attack

The people of Kpokpo Community in Ugborodo, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State have blamed “the award of the EPZ site clearing contract in Kpokpo to an Ijaw leader from Gbaramatu by Chairman of Ugborodo Interface Committee, Barr. Austin Oborogbeyi” as cause of the Monday night attack of Madangho by suspected Gbaramatu youths.

In a statement by the Olare-Aja of Kpokpo, Pa. George Kolo Fregene, on behalf of indigenes of Kpokpo, they warned that the continuous  neglect of Kpokpo by the NNPC, Federal and Delta State Governments as well as the Ugborodo Interface Committee in the EPZ cum Delta Gas Industrial City Project and the subsequent misconception being created that Kpokpo is part of Gbaramatu for “the economic and political convenience of some Ugborodo leaders in collaboration with the said Ijaw leader”, is capable of causing ethnic crisis and stopping the realization of the Gas City Project.

While accusing a former Chairman of Ugborodo Community Trust (Name withheld) of ceding Kpokpo land to Gbaramatu for economic reasons, they noted that “Kpokpo Community is in Ugborodo, Warri South-West Local Government Area in Delta State and not related to Ijaw people of Gbaramatu”.

According to them, allowing the Ijaws of Gbaramatu to clear their land (site of the EPZ) without any involvement or resistance, “will make them lay claim to our land”.

They called on the Delta State Government, the NNPC and other stakeholders to incorporate people of Kpokpo in the Ugborodo Interface Community immediately to forestall possible crisis .

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