Dr. Oke Michael Aziakpono is the President of Isoko Monitoring Group, IMG, a non partisan advocacy group of Isoko professionals dedicated to good governance and national development. In this interview with politicsgovernance.com , he spoke on restructuring, the marginalizaton of the Isoko nation, ongoing consultation on constitutional review and other topical issues. Excepts: What is your opinion about restructuring? The usage of the term restructuring has been so abused but for me, I would wish for a federation with self sustaining states which are able to develop their infrastructure,…
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Bloodbath: Isoko Group, IMG Wants Gov Okowa To Relocate Office
The Isoko Monitoring Group, (IMG) has called on Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa to relocate his office as governor temporarily to Isoko land and fashion out means of putting an end to the inter communal clashes and bloodletting engulfing some Isoko communities. The group Publicity Secretary, Dr. Kingsley Oroh in a statement signed and addressed to the Delta State Governor described Gov Okowa silence over the continued lost of lives as worrisome. According to Dr. Oroh in the statement, “We are compelled to express our disappointment and…
Read MoreIMG Condemns Oleh Killings, Urges Delta Govt To Forestall Reprisal Attack
By Politicsgovernance.com The Isoko Monitoring Group (IMG) has condemned the killing of nine Isoko Indigenes at Oleh, urging the Delta State Government to take urgent steps to forestall reprisal attack. Reacting to the killings of the deceased at a farmland close to a piece of land that is in dispute between Oleh and Ozoro communities, the group, in a statement, described the attack as an “act of barbarism and must be stopped immediately by all concern Isoko Sons and Daughters Worldwide.” IMG, in the statement by it’s Spokesman, Dr.…
Read MoreNigeria@60: IMG blasts Leaders For Inability To Establish Formidable Foundation
The Isoko Monitoring Groups, IMG has lambasted successive Nigerian governments – military and democratic – for their inability to establish a formidable foundation and build a befitting country for all Nigerians to call home from 1960 that the country gained independence till date. In a press release signed by its spokesperson, Dr. Kingsley Oroh, IMG noted that all Nigerian governments have failed to establish critical infrastructure, power and other basic systems that encourages growth, development and make life worth the while for citizens across the country. It added that…
Read MoreNDDC: FG Urged To Extend Forensic Audit To N’Delta Ministery, Amnesty Program
By Omoghene Benedict, ISOKO Monitoring Group, IMG, yesterday, stressed the need for the Federal Government to extend the proposed forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs and Presidential Amnesty Program. It added that the move to probe NDDC and other federal government parastatals that are charged with the responsibility of developing and empowering the Niger Delta people is long overdue and tasked the President Muhammadu Buhari led government not to pay mere lip service over the planned probe by not making…
Read MoreUduaghan apologies to Isoko Nation, IMG, Agbefe
APOLOGY TO MR Sebastine Rabiu Agbefe, ISOKO MONITORING GROUP & THE ISOKO NATION: Immediate past governor of Delta State and Delta South Senatorial candidate of the All Progrssives Congress, APC, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan has tender unreserved apology to Isoko Nation, Isoko Monitoring Group, IMG, and the president of the group, Sebastian Agbefe over the alleged fracas between Agbefe and the Ologbotsere of Warri, Chief Ayiri Emami It was gathered that Chief Ayiri Emami and Sebastian Agbefe had a fight at the home of the the immediate past governor…
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