Taskforce issues fresh abatement to illegal structure occupants to vacate in warri

Taskforce issues fresh abatement to illegal structure occupants to vacate in warri

As part of the Delta state government effort to keep the state clean, the State Taskforce on Environment in collaboration with Warri South Local Government Council Special Taskforce on Beautification, has issued a fresh one week quit abatement notice to residents in warri, especially business men occupying illegal structures, shanties and containerised shops defacing the aesthetic beauty of the oil city as well as those under high tension to vacate within the time frame given or face demolition.

The notice was served on Tuesday 6th April, 2021 after the Easter holidays, by the state taskforce Chairman on Environment, Hon. Sylvester Oromoni alongside the Chairman Warri South LGA special taskforce on city Beautification, Comrade. Kenneth George, warned those affected to use the one week grace to relocate so as to be on the safe side of the law binding them.

Speaking during the exercise, Oromoni said all occupants of illegal structures, attachment built along the road, especially Edjeba junction by Governor's Office Annex, Chevron Clinic road opp DBS, Ogunu flyover bridge bottom, Airport road by NPA housing estate fence, opp AJ restaurant, Estate roundabout e.t.c. are defacing the aesthetic beauty of the environment, causing unnecessary road traffic jam as well as obstructing free flow of vehicular movement.

He expressed displeasure over the deliberate act by traders occupying public road to do their personal business to the detriment of other road users. While urging those traders whose shops are marked to vacate the premises immediately within the stipulated time or risk demolition by the state taskforce, he stated.

In his reaction, the Chairman Warri South Council special taskforce on Beautification, Comrade Kenneth George said his team discovered a hard drugs business center at the Ogugu flyover bridge bottom, where criminals used as hideout to carryout their criminal activities in the city of Warri. He however, join his voice to that of Oromoni appealed to residents in warri to cooperate with Gov. Okowa led Delta state government to serve them better, he noted.

Meanwhile, there was a drama at Okere market opp, one of the illegal shop occupants refuses to to obey, thereby attacked Kenneth George, tore his clothes while he was performing his official assignment. lt took the combined effort of B Division Police officers warri alongside the state taskforce officials to bundle the perpetrators to detained at the station.

However, the state taskforce sealed up the shops in the disputed area for fighting the officials. They where asked to stop further trading in the area until the matter is properly resolved.

Late pa Robert for burial Tomorrow at Ayakoromo, as king Pereama, Allen, Golipat, Tareoge, others set to perform at the occasion

Late pa Robert for burial tomorrow at Ayakoromo, as king Pereama, Allen, Golipat, Tareoge, others set to perform at the occasion

The remains of pa Robert Ekpesibiowei Enefugha would be finally laid to rest at his country home, Ayakoromo Town in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, tomorrow Saturday April 10th, 2021.

The burial proclamation was signed by Pa Amadiowei Saibakumo on behalf of the Enefugha family of Diamo/Agbereye quarters in Ayakoromo (Delta State) and Yougha family of Oyan-edumu quarters of Aghoro (Bayelsa State).

According to the family, said late pa. Robert Ekpesibiowei Enefugha was a marine expert and retired NPA staff, died on the 1st of December, 2020 at the Federal Medical Center (FMC), Yenagoa after a brief illness at the rightful age of 93. 

He is survived by 8 Children, 16 Grand Children, 2 Great Grand Children and many relatives too numerous to mention. 

According to the Burial Arrangement:

Saturday 10th April, 2020:

7am-Body leaves FMC Mortuary Yenagoa to Ayakoromo Town in Burutu LGA, Delta State.

12pm- Body lying in state at Ayakoromo.

1pm- Funeral Service at Ngbilebiri Primary School Field, Ayakoromo.

3pm- Interment. 

4pm- Canoe Competition. 

5pm- Football Match.

8pm- Christain/Traditional wake-keep till dawn. 

Music to be supplied by King Pereama Freetown JP, Numoupere ll of lzonebe, King Allen Alabor, Pst. Golipat, Tare-Oge fanfares & other side attractions.

However, it will interest you to note that late pa Robert Enefugha attended the prestigeous Zik's Academy, Kaduna. He proceeded and acquired higher certificate in Marine Services. 

Pa Ekpesibiowei Enefugha got employment with the Nigeria Ports Authority in 1963 and rose to the rank of Rig Manager. He was the last born among the Enefugha children and was the last to go. This call for celebrations.

Hence, friends, well wishers and the general public is hereby invited to join the family comes Saturday 10th April, this weekend to give their father a befitting final burial rites in Ayakoromo Town, Burutu LGA of Delta State, the statement adds.

Amnesty: Don't deprive us of our right, ex-agitators tell Dikkio, Kemepade

Amnesty: Don't deprive us of our right, ex-agitators tell Dikkio, Kemepade

...... Appealed to Pa Clark, Tompolo, Ateke, Boyloaf, Ajube, Igbifa, Joshua, Reuben, others to call Dikkio, Kemepade to order

Francis Tayor

Yenagoa_____ Former Niger Delta freedom fighters popularly known as ex-agitators of Niger Delta has warned the acting Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Rtd Col. Milland Dikkio as well as his Personal Assistant (PA), Mr. Alfred Kemepade not to deprived them of their rights to access quality education and other benefits due to them in the programme, noting that the amnesty office was created to serve the interest of the ex-agitators and not to witch hunt them.

The ex-agitators under the aegis of the Refined Niger Delta Militants (RNDM) led by Gen. Otobo Alabeni issued the statement on Monday 5th in Yenagoa, stated that they are not happy with Dikkio and his PA Kemepade on their plot to short change them in the programme by asking them to write JAMB before going to school.

They maintained that the interim chairman Dikkio and his PA Kemepade should follow the layed down process by deploying them to the approved universities across the country to study, stressing that anything outside that would attract anarchy and restiveness in the country, especially the Niger Delta oil rich region.

The ex-agitators further draw the attention of the interim management board to note that their engagement was to serve the interest of the ex-agitators of the Niger Delta region and not to imposed on them antagonistic conditions that will jeopardize the peace of the country.

According to Gen. Alabeni, " said if the interim management want impacted community beneficiaries to write JAMB before going to school, that is their own but we the ex-agitators will not be part of the JAMB arrangement because that was not part of the agreement we signed with federal government in 2009 before we accept amnesty. We where told that those of us want to go to school would be given direct admission and that is what had been ongoing since 2010 till date. But when Dikkio come onboard, him and his allies are bringing JAMB condition to thwart the whole process the past Coordinators had built over the years."

In addition, " We also warned Kemepade and Dikkio to immediately forward the bush names of the ex-agitators as well as those who have changed to their real names to the designated higher institutions for study because most of us were afraid to use our real names in the initial stage of accepting amnesty due to misinformation. Planning to send only real names to school to the detriment of those using their bush names would be tartanmount to anarchy in the country, Gen. Alabeni noted."

However, the ex-agitators used this medium appealed to High Chief.  Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo, HRM. King Ateke Tom, Dr. Ebikabowei Victor Ben aka Boyloaf, High Chief Bibopere Ajube aka Shoot at Sight, Gen. Young Shall Grow, Pastor Reuben, Gen. Joshua Maichaver, IYC President Timothy Igbifa, Pa. E.K Clark and the South-South Governors to  immediately intervene on this matter to call Rtd Col. Milland Dikkio and his PA Alfred Kemepade to order, if not they will have no other option than to invoke the spirit of Egbesu as well as their fallen hero's in the course of the Niger Delta Liberation struggle to go after them, the statement adds.