The Political Adviser to the state governor, Omimi Esquire, while speaking at a sensitization meeting with community women and youth leaders from lsoko nation and Ndokwa nationality at the NULGE Hall, lsoko south Secretariat in Oleh, the council headquarters, yesterday, he wondered why the affected communities could not cohabit peacefully but choose to bicker over land boundaries.
He however commended the people of Ndokwa East and West local government areas for living in relative peace.
Omimi Esquire said while government was doing all it could to forestall further breakdown of law and order in the affected communities by setting up a panel of enquiry to look into the immediate and remote causes of the boundary dispute related violence, he appealed for all and sundry to sheathe their swords and embrace peace so that more development could come to lsoko land, averring that no meaningful development could thrive in an atmosphere of crisis.
While stating that the Okowa administration had high regards for the lsoko nation, judging from the number of her indigenes holding sensitive political appointments in his administration, the Political Adviser to the Governor said lsoko nation has benefitted and would continue to benefifs from the developmental vision of the Okowa administration’s stronger Delta agenda.
For the Ndokwa people, Omimi Esquire was full of praises for the relative peace in their land, stating that with the kwale lndustrial park and Beneku bridge among several completed projects dotting the entire landscape, the people would benefit more from the Okowa administration in the distribution of democratic dividends.
In their various remarks during the robust interactive session, the representatives of the lsoko and Ndokwa nationalities stressed the need for government to always feel their pulse by providing them with projects that would impact on them.
He said Ndokwa sons and daughters are part of the present administration, urging them to support the Operation Delta Hawk joint task force recently inaugurated by the Governor.
Said Omimi: “The people of lsoko and Ndokwa should know that security is everybody’s business. They must report all criminal activities in their communities to the relevant security agencies. They must be proactive”.
They commended the Governor for approving the sensitization visit, stating that it has gone a long way to bridging the gap between government and the governed.
Goodwill messages were delivered by the Vice Chairmanship candidate for lsoko north on the platform of Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Ozue and SSA Political to the Governor, Hon Evans Egbo.
Comrade Hope George, SA Political, was also in attendance.
