Jethro Ibileke/Benin
The Ijaws in Edo State, have demanded that the State Government create a separate local government area for them as a measure to end the tension that has built up between them and the Benin people.
This is even as they expressed dissatisfaction for being referred to as migrants, settlers, strangers and tenants in their present domain, just as they rejected what they termed an attempt by the Oba of Benin to appoint or impose persons with strange titles such as Odionwere, Enogie and Okao as representatives of the Oba of Benin in any of their communities.
Elders and leaders of yhought from the five Ijaw kingdoms of Edo State, namely, Egbema, Olodiama, Furupagha, Okomu and Gbaran, and the leadership of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Edo State chapter, made the demand over the weekend, in a paper signed by Rev. C. A. Dime and 16 others,…
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