Rivers
Obrikom Community Condemns Peace Committee Dissolution
The Obrikom Community in Ogba/Egbeme/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State has concluded arrangements for the replacement and refilling of vacant chieftaincy stools and positions in its administrative organs.
The community at the end of its joint meeting on November 25, 2009, resolved to conduct elections to fill the vacant chieftaincy stool of the Ochi Oha 1 of Obrikom and elect officers of the Community Development Committee (OCDC), Obrikom Youth Council (OYC) and the Obrikom Women Council (OWC), just as it declared that the purported dissolution of the peace committee was a violation of their right.
A communiqué jointly signed by members of Obrikom Improvement Union, Port Harcourt and the Obrikom Council of Chiefs, directed families that do not have representations in the chiefs council resulting from death, to submit names of their nominees.
The communiqué mandated the Obrikom Council of chiefs to constitute an election planning committee in accordance with the community’s constitution.
The Obrikom community will continue to recognise the peace committee headed by Mr. Clement Nwaogwu, the communiqué said and charged the council of Chiefs to in conjunction with eminent personalities of the community demand for a fresh Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with oil companies operating in the area while ensuring that previous agreements reached were complied with and implemented accordingly.
Recalling some incidents of cult and criminal activities including killings that bedeviled the Obrikom community in the recent past, the meeting decided that it was necessary to have the peace committee to restore sanity and move the town forward.
The meeting further resolved that henceforth, all dealings or transactions including finances concerning the Obrikom community must be done through the Council of Chiefs and called for a refund of monies collected from former contestants to the Obrikom Youth Council executive and CDC as such collection was illegal.
Shedie Okpara
Niger Delta
Tai Agric Sector Gets Emergency Attention …As Chairman Distributes Farm Inputs, Inaugurates Technical Team

The Chairman of Tai Local Government Council of Rivers State, Hon. Matthew Nenu Bari Dike has declared a state of emergency in the agriculture sector of Tai local government.
Speaking while distributing farm implements and other agricultural support packages to the farmers at the council’s headquarters in Saakpenwa, yesterday, Dike challenged farmers to show their farms before requesting for financial assistance.
The council boss stated that as a government, they were committed to putting smiles on the faces of the people and assured that his administration would ensure that every person in the local government is happy.
“As a government we want to assure you that, we will stop at nothing to ensure you all are empowered and living happily”.
According to him, “the gesture is aimed at enhancing food production and security through agriculture, and enjoined all lovers of agriculture in the local government area to identify with the quest to redefine development through agriculture in the local government.
He encouraged everyone to cultivate the passion and return to agriculture, to guarantee self-reliance, maximum food production and security in the area.
His administration, he said, would purchase more yam seedlings in order to get greater production to encourage exportation beyond the shores of Nigeria.
“A boost in yam production will also empower farmers in the Local Government Area”, the elated chairman said.
In a related development, the Chairman has inaugurated a five, member Agricultural Technical Committee for the Local Government Area.
The committee is made up of Pst. Anderson Wariboko, Barr. Paul Newman,, Smith Nyor-Ue, Gladys Jumbo and Dr Keke Rammyson
Also speaking, the Director of Agriculture, Tai Local Government Area, Mr Anderson Wariboko revealed that the event was part of activities to mark the chairman’s 100 days in office.
Wariboko who led the chairman, and other leaders of the council on the distribution of the farm inputs to the farmers, was full of praises for the chairman, Hon. Dike whom he said has the interest of the people at heart.
Kiadum Edookor
Rivers
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