The people of Aladja community in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State on Tuesday raised an alarm over a renewed plot by elements from Ogbe-Ijoh community in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State to invade them in continuation of the boundary disputes that rocked the two communities.
A leader of Aladja community, Mr. Ighoteguolor Bezi, who spoke on behalf of the community, said, “We hear from reliable source that, it is the whole of Ogbe-Ijoh and Ijaw nation that is planning to invade our community.”
Bezi also claimed that the people of Ogbe-Ijoh community continue to attack their women, girls as well as denied them access to their farm lands even when arrangements by the Delta State government to settle the lingering dispute between the two communities are ongoing.
He warned that the Aladja people will not fold their hands and watch their people to be killed by blood-thirsty miscreants.
Bezi also called on the Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa to urgently wade into the matter before it is blown into a full crisis, and save the both communities the loss of lives and property that may ensue.
Meanwhile, the Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Zanna Mohammed Ibrahim, in a press statement signed and made available to DAILY POST, stated that, “reports reaching this command indicate that some misguided miscreants are in the habit of intimidating or disallowing communities of their right or access to farmland despite efforts that is ongoing to settle the lingering dispute between the two communities.”
“This is criminal and unacceptable as the Constitution of Nigeria guarantees freedom of movement across all parts of Nigeria. Thus, nobody has the moral or equitable right whatsoever to do that. The legal principles of casement, public nuisance and the criminal code must come to the fore,” the CP warned.
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