A decomposing body of a missing 38-year-old Gbaramatu Indigene, Solomon Ikoto has been found along the Warri river, DAILY POST can report.
Solomon Ikoto, 38 and Samuel Monday, 37 were allegedly abducted by armed
Aladja youths on their way to work along Ovwian/Aladja river in Delta State on the 13th of July 2017.
Immediately, their families and the Gbaramatu people declared them missing as they raised the alarm.
But the decomposing corpse of Samuel has been found and taken to the Nigerian Marine Police Command in Warri.
A cousin to the victim, Mr. Peter Ebime identified the deceased who
was alleged to have been beheaded.
Ebime claimed to have slept with the late Solomon Ikoto on the same bed a night before he was declared missing one other Gbaramatu indigene.
Ebime stated that it was the cloths he wore last time they slept
together that was still in his body.
The Chairman of Kokodiagbene Community, Comrade Sheriff Mulade condemned the abduction and subsequent beheading of the deceased.
Mulade noted that Gbaramatu people are not at war with Aladja neither were Ijaw people at war with Urhobo people, stressing that, “for Aladja
to go extreme by abducting and beheading an Ijaw person was condemnable.”
“Gbaramatu people have no issue with Aladja neither Urhobo nation; Gbaramatu is not at war with any communities of Urhobo, neither is Gbaramatu is at war with Aladja. The Ijaw people are not at war with Uhrobo people, neither are Urhobo people with the Ijaws. For Aladja to go that extreme of abducting and beheading persons all in the name of communal crisis is highly condemnable! I condemned it in its entirety.”
Mulade also called on the Delta State Government to take bold steps in order to resolve the lingering crisis between Aladja and Ogbe-Ijoh communities before it gets out of hand.
The Delta State Acting Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Andrew Aniamaka said he was not aware of the incident saying, “Let me make my findings and get back to you please.”
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