Itsekiri graduates both in Nigeria
and in the Diaspora have called on both the federal and state governments as
well as other relevant agencies to immediately put machinaries in motion to
ensure the rebuilding of Itsekiri communities recently burnt by suspected Ijaw youths
from Egbema clan in Warri North local government area, stressing that it is the
only way “to forestall further agitations and possible reprisal attacks.”
In a statement made available to
newsmen in Warri, the Itsekiri graduates under the auspices of National
Association of Itsekiri Graduates, NAIG described the recent attacks as “senseless,
barbaric and unprovoked”, wondering how the Egbema youths who carried the
attacks got such “ sophisticated weapons at their disposal” even after claiming
to have accepted amnesty.
The statement which was signed by
NAIG President and Secretary, Alero Tenumah and Collins Edah respectively
lamented that “over seven years after the protracted Warri crisis neither the federal or state government has
done anything to rebuild the Itsekiri towns and villages that were destroyed.”
While calling on the federal government,
National Assembly as well as the state government to take decisive step to
bring perpetrators of the recent attacks of over six Itsekiri communities to
book as a way of averting further breakdown of law and order, NAIG enjoined the
federal and state governments as well as NEMA and international organizations
to send relief materials to “the over two thousand displaced persons taking
refuge especially in Koko town and environs.”
The statement stressed that the
sending of relief materials “should not be politicized by those in government”
for the interests of the displaced persons.
It would be recalled that a section
of Egbema Ijaw youths recently burnt down not less six Itsekiri communities being
rebuilt by the Itsekiri Regional Development Committee, IRDC in Warri North
local government, killing at least eight people, some of which were slaughtered
under the guise of alleged political marginalization.
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ISSN 2354 - 4104
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