Politics
Agbaru Wants Rumuekpe People To Return Home
As the voters registration continues, the president General of Ogbakor Ikwerre, Chief Sampson Agbaru has appealed to the people of Rumuekpe community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State to return to their community and participate in the on-going exercise.
The people of Rumuekpe flee from the community in 2005 following communal crisises that rocked the community. Most of the people are Living as refugees in neighbouring communities since the crises.
Agbaru who made the call when he visited Rumuekpe and Ndele communities recently, as part of his sensitisation and mobilisation exercise urged the people to go back home and register in the on-going exercise to enable them exercise their civic responsibility in the April general elections.
The President General of Ogbakor Ikwerre said with restoration of peace in the community, it is necessary for the people to start coming back home and rebuilt the community, stressing that he had played prominent roles in restoring peace in some Ikwerre communities that were involved in crisis.
He regretted that most of the crisis in the communities were caused by minor issues which ordinarily should have been handled and settled among the people.
Agbaru appealed to the state government to assist the people by providing social amenities to the area.
In an another development, Mrs Peace Lucky Ideozu has appealed to women in Ahoada East Local government Area of Rivers State to ensure that they register in the on-going voters since peace has return to the community.
Mrs Ideozu who contested for the State Assembly Ahoada East constituency 1, advised the women to register in their various units, stating that with their cards, they would choose their leaders.
He appealed to his supporters to be calm and support any candidate that emerged in the last PDP primaries to the constituency.