BY MICHAEL EKOKORUWE Oleh Community Development Union (OCDU) at the weekend, elected new president general, Chief Believe Unuafe and other executive members to pilot affairs of the community for one tenure of three years at Oleh Civic center, Isoko South local government area of Delta State. The election was orderly, peaceful, free and fair, and was conducted and supervised by the commissioner for women affair’s, community and social development, Barr. Mrs. Pat Ajudua, Chief Edwin Uzor, special advicer to governor Sheriff Oborevwori, on peace building and conflict resolution Delta…
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Isoko Community Protest Over Oil Company Dialogue Refusal
By Michael J. Ekokoruwe The president general of Oleh community, Chief Comr. Believe Alakri has revealed that the protest by Oleh community in Isoko South Local Government Area is as the result of the continued marginalization of employment slots by Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited management, HEOSL He said the current ongoing protest will continue until the demands raised by the community are met. Alakri make the statement while speaking to journalists at Oleh, Isoko South local government area of Delta State, as the protest by Oleh community…
Read MoreOleh Oil/Gas: Landlords Urge HEOSL To Disregards DTSG Directives
By Kelvin Ohoror The oil and gas landlords of Ukolobi/Okpohro (Itesa) quarter of Oleh community led by Elder James Ejeke has called on Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited to disregard the Delta State government directives to discontinue fourth with the Oleh Community Development Committee led by Chief Obaro Ekokobe. It will be recalled, the Delta State government through the Commissioner of oil/gas and the Isoko South Local Government Chairman Hon. Victor Asasa in a memo directed Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited to discontinue fourth with the Oleh community development committee…
Read MoreBloodbath: 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 MoreOkowa Inaugurates Panel Of Inquiry Into Oleh, Ozoro Land Dispute
By Kelvin Ohoror Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa on Wednesday, inaugurated a seven-man Judicial Panel of Inquiry into the land dispute between Oleh and Ozoro communities in the state. He said at the ceremony at Government House, Asaba that the panel would determine the remote and immediate causes of the conflict between the parties in Oleh and Ozoro communities. According to the governor, it is disheartening that after all we have been through as a country and a State throughout this year, our State is now confronted with…
Read MoreBarbaric Murder of Nine Oleh Indigenes Was Unprovoked, We Call for Justice – Group
By politicsgovernance.com The Oleh United Front (OUF) has frowned on media reports that are attributing the killing of nine (9) Oleh indigenes and the abduction of three (3) others to communal clash between Oleh and Ozoro. The group said the attack was unprovoked and that it was carried against the Oleh victims for reasons not known. In a press statement jointly signed by the conveners of the group, Charles Mallam-Obi and Ewomazino Odugala and made available to newsmen, OUF said that Oleh is not at war or communal clash…
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