AVENGERS: IJAW LEADERS AND OPC MEETS

LAGOS — The chief of Ijaw Monitoring Group, Comrade Joseph Evah; founding father of Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, and the Nationwide Coordinator of OPC, Chief Fredrick Fasheun and Otunba Gani Adams respectively, met over the strain brewing between the Yoruba and Ijaws in Lagos because of the menace by the Niger Delta Avengers to assault Lagos.

Chatting with Vanguard after the assembly which was additionally attended by some Yoruba chiefs and group leaders within the riverine areas of Lagos and Ogun states, Comrade Joseph Evah assured that the Niger Delta Avengers won’t assault Lagos, including that the management of the Ijaw nation, in addition to the Amnesty programme coordinator, Common Paul Boroh, have suggested the Avengers to dialogue with authorities as an alternative of choosing violence.

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Based on Evah: “We aren’t taking the menace by the Yoruba self- willpower group, Odua Defenders Union, ODU, to assault Ijaws in Lagos forward of the plan by NDA to storm Lagos lamely. We had bloody struggle with the Yoruba youths on the streets of Lagos about 15. years in the past and it was the Late Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha that saved the state of affairs.

“Regardless of the intervention of Alamco, we have now many widows, fatherless youngsters in Lagos due to that struggle. Ijaw and Yorubas misplaced over one hundred souls aside from the properties destroyed.”

The Ijaw Chief additional stated: “The menace by Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) is inflicting rigidity now and something can occur. We now have to avert blood tub. The inhabitants of Ijaws from Akwa-Ibom, Rivers, Delta, Edo, Bayelsa and Ondo State in Lagos State is over half one million, particularly within the riverine areas of Lagos and Ogun states.

“Ijaws and Yorubas are in good relationship now within the South-West and we need to keep that good relationship,” Evah stated.