NOA Preaches Against Voilence In Niger Delta

Niger Delta youths have been advised to shun all forms of violence and criminalities in order to attract  development  to the area.

The Rivers State Director, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Chief Andy Nweye, gave the advice last Sunday, at St Paul’s Anglican Church Okporowo-Ogbakiri in Emohua  Local Government   when Women Prayer, Peace and Empowerment Foundation (WOPPEF), led by its president,  Mrs Victoria Chuku-Akwu, visited the community for talk shows and donation of relief materials to  widows, orphans and youths of the area.

Chief Nneye, who spoke through Mr. Ade Joel, said that the only way to attract  government’s  attention to one’s community was to shun all negative tendencies and embrace peace.

According to him, such feat could be achieved when God is in one’s life, adding, “love has a way of healing old wounds.”

He regretted that people pay much attention to worthless ventures thereby abandoning the real societal norms  that bring about development.

The NOA boss, was also of the view that it was wrong for youths to see arm struggle as the best option of addressing issues, saying that they should fall back to the old use of communal dialogue  as the way forward.

Speaking  the President of WOPPEF,  Mrs Chuku-Akwu, told the Ogbakiri people to see their past situation as an eye opener and food for  thought.

She hinted that her group was elated to hear of the peace-move by Okporowo people and  called on the entire Ogbakiri community as well as other warring communities in Niger Delta to tow the path of peace.