OKUAMA: Oborevwori Inaugurates IDP Mgt Committee

 Succour will soon come the way of the displaced people of Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State as Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, Wednesday, inaugurated Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Management Committee.

The Committee has veteran journalist and former Editor of The Guardian Newspaper, Mr Abraham Ogbodo as Chairman and Director of Personnel Management, DPM, Ughelli South Local Government Council, Chief Austin Emaduku as Secretary.

Other members include; Senator Emmanuel Aguariavwodo, Hon. Festus Utuama, Hon. Reuben Izeze, Dr. Richard Kofi, Chief Oviri Uto, Hon. Josephine Oduaran, Obukohwo Henry Ediyo, Karo Ovemeso and Austin Ohwofaria who will serve as Camp Commandant.


Delta Governor, Rt .Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori ( middle), his Deputy, Sir Monday Onyeme (6th left), Secretary to State Government, Dr Kingsley Emu (5th left), the Chairman, Ewu Internally Displaced Persons ( IDP) Management  Committee,  Mr. Abraham Ogbodo (6th right) and other  members of the committee shortly after their inauguration at Government House,  Asaba on Wednesday. Pix: JIBUNOR SAMUEL

Inaugurating the Committee at Government House Asaba, Governor Oborevwori charged the Committee to carefully plan the resettlement and rehabilitation of the innocent citizens of Okuama community.

Oborevwori said: "I welcome all of you to the inauguration of a Committee charged with the duty of planning and coordinating the settlement and rehabilitation of our people at Okuama."

"Much as we condemned in strong terms the dastardly act that took the lives of our gallant officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army."

"We will do everything we can to reduce to the barest minimum the attendant effects on the common man in Okuama community."

"Innocent people have been displaced, their homes and properties destroyed, this was, and still is, an unfortunate and most unexpected development."

"Like I said when I visited Okuama the other day, the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, and the military agreed that innocent people in Okuama should not be made to suffer needlessly."

"This is why we sincerely believe that sooner than later, the innocent ones will be allowed to return to their homes."

"It is now right for goverment to set up a committee to plan their resettlement and rehabilitation ahead of their return. This is the minimum we owe our people, we have to reassure them to have a sense of belonging as we make adequate arrangements for their settlement and rehabilitation."

"Note that you have been carefully chosen based on your previous antecedents, we are therefore confident that you will do a transparent, thorough and selfless job that not only the people of Okuama but every Deltan will be proud of you as you make adequate arrangements of receiving them and lessening their pains."

"I urge you to attach a sense of urgency to this assignment. We must demonstrate the highest degree of love and responsibility towards our people. That is the least we can do for them." 

Responding on behalf of members of the committee, the Chairman, Abraham Ogbodo, expressed appreciation to the governor for finding them worthy to serve in the committee.

He said their appointment into the committee was a call for service and assured the governor and Deltans that, by the grace of God, they would live up to expectation by delivering the needed services to the people.

According to him, members of the committee would work with the sense of urgency that the state assignment requires, assuring that they would be transparent, thorough and selfless in addressing the humanitarian crisis in Okuama.


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