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News: Age long land dispute resolved between Delta, Bayelsa communities
After seven years of litigations, the people of Trofani in
Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and Ikpide-Irri and Onyah in
Isoko South and Ndokwa East Local Government Areas of Delta State have settled
their land dispute through Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanism.
The resurgence of hostilities over land disputes between
Onyah/Ikpide-Irri on the one hand and Trofani/Ikpide-Irri on the other, was
triggered by the discovery of oil well between the boundaries of Ikpide-Irri
and Canaan-Irri and the construction of a five kilometre road awarded by the
Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
At separate meetings held in Asaba with the representatives
of the three communities, which was facilitated by the Delta and Bayelsa States
Conflict Management Alliance as an intervention process to find a lasting
solution to the aged-long disputes, admitted that mediation was a better
alternative as several efforts in time past failed to yield the desired results
of reconciling the feuding communities.
Leaders of the peace delegations from the communities, Mr.
Michael Omojefe (President General, Ikpide-Irri), Chief Bennard Onyenokwe (
Onyah ) and Abel Akemi ( Prime Minister, Trofani) acknowledged that the dispute
had impacted negatively on the economic and social lives of the people.
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