Peace and development advocate, Comrade Mulade Sheriff, has admonished warring Okuama and Okoloba communities to embrace peace so that merchants of communal war will not feast on their losses.
Mulade, who’s a Gbaramatu Kingdom chief, condemned, in its entirety, the heinous and barbaric killing of soldiers who were reportedly on a peace mission in Okuama, over a land dispute with Okoloba community.
The environmental rights activist condoled with the Nigerian Army over the needless killings and appealed to the feuding Okuama and Okoloba communities to sheathe their swords.
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He called on the military high command and Delta State government to institute an enquiry and bring to book the perpetrators of the dastardly act.
Speaking further, he urged the warring groups to embrace peace for the sake of the development and growth of Okuama/Okoloba, being descendants of the same progenitor.
He warned them not to fall into the hands of warmongers/instigators, whose primary occupation and means of survival rely on communal/ethnic crises, thereby positioning themselves as negotiators/leaders.
The Ijaw leader, once again, appealed to Okuama and Okoloba communities whom he described as brothers and sisters, with long history of inter-marriages, to sheathe their swords and allow peace to reign.
“It is worthy of note that Sheriff Oborevwori, the governor of Delta State, needs peace to attract investors to grow the economy of the state, and create employment opportunities for our teeming youths,” he averred.
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