MOSOP Decries Renewed Cult Crisis In Ogoni

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), has decried renewed cult crisis rocking some communities in Ogomi land, saying it was affecting the image and character of Ogoni people.
MOSOP President, Legborsi Pyagbara, stated this while addressing youths from Tai Kingdom, Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State led by Comrade Austin Obenade, who paid him a courtesy visit at his office in Port Harcourt.
Pyagbara specifically listed Ogoni communities of Zaakpon, Luawii, Kaani-Babbe, Bo-ue, Nyokuru, Lueku, Sogho currently being ravaged by cult crisis, saying the situation is disturbing in view of the sacrifices made by prominent leaders of the area to bring Ogoni problems to the limelight of the international community.
He said, “These cult crises in recent times in the aforementioned communities will do no one any good and have had a damaging effects to the image and character of the Ogoni people particularly, the sacrifices that had been made to bring the name of Ogoni from zero to hero.”
The MOSOP President called on Ogoni people, particularly the youths to tread the path of peace and unity and avoid acts capable of destroying the area and called on the youths to ensure that whatever legitimate grievances they had, were tendered peacefully, urging them to make the interest of Ogoni a priority at all times.
“Our youths should always put the interest of the Ogoni community first in the pursuit of their rights. While I cannot claim to know the reasons for the recent outburst of grievances resulting in the killing of ourselves, I am pleading with our brothers to stop the killings and not set Ogoni ablaze or constitute a cog in the wheel of progress of Ogoni’’, Pyagbara advised.
He further charged the youths to shun violence, cultism and other acts of criminality and resist being used as agents of division and retrogression against the ‘destined growth and development’ of Ogoniland. 
“The Ogoni culture of respect, honesty, orderliness, hospitality, peace and justice should be imbibed and sustained by all sons and daughters of the land,’’ he pleaded.
He chided the federal government for failing to provide Ogoni people with adequate security and leaving the area without protection for criminals and vandals to reign supreme and explained that MOSOP will intensify its peace campaigns in Ogoni following the renewed violence and insecurity in some parts of the area.
“As part of our peace initiative, in the coming days, MOSOP will engage with the traditional rulers, opinion leaders and various security agencies in the area with the aim of achieving sustainable peace in Ogoni communities”,  the Ogoni leader disclosed.

Dennis Naku