Ugborodo deaths: Parallel leadership joins call for government probe

By Egufe Yafugborhi

PARALLEL Ugborodo Administrative Committee (UAC) has called for the probe of the violence which claimed two lives as armed youths aborted a peace building meeting in the volatile oil-rich community in Warri South West local government area of Delta State.

The state government backed Ugborodo Community Management Committee (UCMC) first called for government and security agents’ probe of some suspects it claimed masterminded  the August 27 fatal attack.

The UAC, in a statement by its Chairman, Jolomi Metsegharun, yesterday, said, “We call on the Federal Government to investigate a group in Warri on where and how its members arrived at the decision for a general meeting at Ode-Ugborodo without the inputs of the elders

“The decision to have a general meeting ought to emanate from the community where you want to hold the meeting and not from Warri based elders who claimed superiority over the council of elders in the community.”

But in a swift reaction, a member of the UCMC, Alex Eyengho, said, “These desperate lies are laughable and make their case even more hopeless. The over 350 indigenes of Ugborodo who they attacked were responding to a widely publicized notice of Ugborodo meeting signed by Egharaja, Chairman, Elders’ Council”.

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