Fresh anxiety in Ugborodo oil community: Gangsters establish militant camps, terrorize residents

WHEN the Police declared wanted notable indigenes of Ugborodo, an Itsekiri oil community in Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, over the August 23 ambush on the Warri waterways of the Chairman of the Ugborodo Community Management Committee, UCMC, Chief Austin Oborogbeyi and his members, many thought that peace would soon return to the creek neighborhood.

The unfortunate incident which claimed the lives of Pa Benson Okoturo and Samuel Mayomi was a case of brothers fighting and killing themselves over who controls power in the community.

A community source, who spoke to Saturday Vanguard, said the violence was sparked by an attempt by some factional leaders to stop the Chief Austin Oborogbeyi-led UCMC from exercising authority on the people.

The attack was to prevent the Oborogbeyi-led UCMC, which had been re-energized by the state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, in May, from gaining access to Ugborodo.

Vanguard, December 2, 2017

 

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