Okuama crisis: Rights group decries detention of leaders, seeks gov’s intervention

Value Rebirth/Human Rights Advocate, VRHRA, has decried the plight of the radical of Okuama community.

The Coordinator of VRHRA, Amb. Edewor Egedegbe, stated this portion speaking connected the concern successful Okuama during a TV programme, ‘Niger Delta Today,’ connected Advocate Broadcasting Network (ADBN).

Speaking connected concerns that Okuama assemblage leaders and others person remained successful subject detention for much than 2 years, helium blasted the national and Delta State governments, arsenic good arsenic the National Assembly, for abandoning them, particularly arsenic determination has been nary feedback from the institutions of authorities liable for their detention.

According to him, each attempts they person made to scope retired to the Governor of Delta State to explicit their concerns person been futile.

“That is the astir worrisome to me. The information is, authorities and enactment are astir empathy. As the concern of Okuama radical remains pathetic, we request to speech to those successful complaint of authorities due to the fact that we are nether the government.

“As bona fide citizens, if determination are issues, conscionable arsenic we person successful Okuama, to whom bash we cry? Is it not the gov...