Tag: Okuama Community

Discourse: Okuama: We’re All Losers

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  By Wilson Goruvwoghor   It is no longer controvertible that the luring of 17 soldiers to death so brutal in a doubtful, reckless ‘peace mission’ and the collateral damage, particularly the military’s vengeful pushing of Okuama, the center stage, towards extinction was avoidable. Beyond the associated growing pains, this tragedy has become another shame of a nation in which we’re all losers. In the can of worms being opened on the appalling episodes over Okuama, government and the military share bulk of the collective blame. And playing judge and…

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Okuama Killing: On The Declaration Of The Ovie Of Ewu By The Nigerian Army

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By Assin Godstime   One lesson to learn from the Okuama saga is the need to have pragmatic leaders in power. When you give power to a weak person to lead, perhaps because of sentiment, it hurts in the future. The Delta State Governor, in my binoculars, failed in the matter in hand. It’s surprising that a sitting Governor and Chief Security Officer of a State could not access Okuama that is under his watch, to access the true situation of things. The UPU is another big failure, and this…

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17 Slain Soldiers: It’s Illegal T Declare Suspects Wanted-Falana Warns Army

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Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, has revealed that declaring 8 persons wanted by the Defence Headquarters in connection with the killing of 17 soldiers in Delta state is completely illegal. “The decision of the defence headquarters to declare the murder suspects wanted is completely illegal. Let the federal government direct the defence headquarters to hand over the investigation of the suspects involved in the gruesome murder of the 17 officers and soldiers. It ought to be pointed out that murder is not a military offence to warrant…

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Halt Military Operation In Okuama Community, Agbobore Appeals To Tinubu

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    The Welfare Officer of the Urhobo Progress Union, (UPU) Youth Wing Worldwide, Comrade Ese Simon Agbobore has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to halt the military operation in Okuama community, Ughelli South local government area of Delta State over the recent killing of some soldiers. Commiserating with Nigeria Army, families of the four officers and 13 soldiers killed recently at Okuama in Delta State, Agbobore  appealed to the Federal Government to prevail on the Nigeria Army to seize fire of their reprisal attack on innocent lives. According…

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Ogbodo: Military Ambush In Okuama Not Caused By Communal Crisis But Tied To Illegal Oil Bunkering

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  Former Editor of Guardian Newspaper and Niger Delta leader of thought, Abraham Ogbodo, has said that the ambush and murder of the troops from the 181 Amphibious Battalion is not connected to the communal crisis between Okuama and Okoloba, but instead connected to illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta. During an interview with ARISE NEWS on Thursday, the Urhobo indigene also said that the military should give investigators access into the Okuama community so that they can find out reasons behind the attack that killed 16 soldiers. Ogbodo…

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Opinion & Analysis: Okuama Is No More!

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By Sunny Awhefeada   The above title reechoes a significant statement in the understanding of the disruptive essence of colonialism in Africa as depicted in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, a novel which is crucial to the understanding of the African predicament. It was Obierika who told his audience including his great friend Okonkwo, “Abame is no more”. The village of Abame was wiped out because her people killed a Whiteman the very symbol of the colonialism in Africa. The colonial enterprise left in its wake a series of punitive…

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Nicholas Mutu Condemns Killing Of The Army In Delta

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Member of the House of Representatives, representing Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency of Delta State, Hon. Nicholas Mutu has condemned Thursday’s killing of 16 soldiers by some irate youths of Okuama community, an Urhobo enclave in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state. Mutu, who is the Chairman of the Gas Committee in the House, described the action as “barbaric and inhuman.” Mutu, who is also the Chairman of the Southern Nigeria Carcus in the House of Representatives, made his position on the tragic incident known in a statement issued by his…

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