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Emolga Administrator Tasks Stakeholders On Peace, Dev.
The Administrator of Emohua Local Government Area, Franklin Ajinwo, has charged the people of Rumuewhor Community to embrace lasting peace to attract meaningful development and progress to the area.
Ajinwo stated this recently at a mediation and reconciliation meeting with the Ohna in Council, Security Agencies, stakeholders, and people of Rumuewhor at the Council’s Headquarters in Rumuakunde, Emohua Local Government Area.
The Emolga Administrator noted that part of the duty any responsible government owe its citizens is to protect lives and properties.
He said it was also part of the government’s responsibility to ensure peace at every quarter in the Local Government, which included Rumuewhor.
He ezpressed displeasure over what he described as unfavourable reports believed to have emanated from the people.
“No government can fold its hands and watch a community derail or its people slip into anarchy or lawlessness. We, as a government, cannot allow any person or group of people take laws into their hands. We have a duty to protect your lives and properties and so we cannot keep quiet”, he said.
Ajinwo also sued for peace to all warring factions and harped on the need for synergy among everyone and security agencies to help fish out miscreants and prosecute any member of the security agencies found culpable, noting that no one individual or entity is bigger than the government.
In his remarks, one of the Chiefs from Rumuewhor and former Caretaker Chairman, Eze Azunda Nkomadu, lauded Ajinwo’s appointment and thanked him for the peace initiatives.
Nkomadu faulted criminal allegations bothering on rape, kidnap, killings and unleashing of mayhem upon himself and some vocal elites of the Community by members of the local vigilante group (OSPAC) and other prominent figures in the Community.
He revealed that his house was torched at the peak of the crisis and alleged threat to his life and that of his family members.
Such development, he said, led to their seeking refuge outside the Community and called for the complete overhaul of the local vigilante to achieve the much needed peace.
The Community Development Chairman of Rumuewhor, Eze Uchenna Okenwe, while responding to allegations by Eze Nkomadu, exonerated himself but stated that the community lost peace following his suspension from the Chiefs in council.
Okenwe also expressed willingness to abide by resolutions reached at the meeting and to work assiduously towards achieving sustainable peace in the Community.
Present at the meeting were Head of Local Government Administration of the Council, Ms. Nume Raymond, CP Wagbara Peters (rtd.) amongst others.
By: King Onunwor