DELTA STATE DEPUTY GOV ASSURES EGBEMA PEOPLE OF GOVT RESOLVE IN ADDRESSING ISSUES OF THE KINGDOM. 

Asaba -

The long standing political and developmental issues agitating the minds of  people of Egbema Kingdom Warri North Council Area may soon be resolved. 

Indications to these effects emerged  from a meeting of representatives of  Egbema Leaders of Thought with the Delta State Deputy Governor Deacon Kingsley Otuaro at Government House Asaba .

Staff correspondent Joshua Okpanefe reports that the State Deputy Governor assured of Government's  readiness to seek lasting solutions to the economic, political and developmental issues bothering the Egbema people.

The Egbema Leaders of Thought who was led to the meeting by Ambassador Jude Ebitimi Ukori arrived the conference hall of the State Deputy Governor, Thursday afternoon to table critical issues .

With the Delta State Deputy Governor Kingsley Otuaro to receive the Egbema delegation were key members of the state executive council as well as other top government officials.

Speaking to journalists after the closed door session Deacon Kingsley Otuaro said the concerns of the Egbema people on the on going bidding for fifty seven oil marginal fields located in Egbema land as well as political and infrastructural issues were discussed.

The Delta State Deputy Governor assured that the government of Dr Ifeanyi Okowa would stop at nothing in the quest for solutions to these issues through dialogue.

For his part, Ambassador Jude Ebitimi Ukori who spoke with journalists affirmed that the political deprivation of the Egbema kingdom over the years especially in the affairs of Warri North Local Government and in the State were worrisome to them fueling agitations hence the  call that they be resolved in the upcoming local government elections and the next general election.

The Egbema leaders also insisted on twenty five percent equity holdings in the running of the fifty seven oil marginal fields in their locality just as the communities be granted the right of first refusal in bidding for licence to operate the oil marginal field.

The people also urged the government to construct bridges, tackle environmental degradation and resolve the boundary dispute with ondo state as part their territory was allegedly being illegaly occupied by some ILaje people who lost their settlements in ondo state to ocean surges.