Demolition: Ijaw Community Rejects Returnee Ex-Militants
Ayakoromo Community in Burutu local government, Delta State has rejected some of its youths whose makeshift structures in Warri were recently demolished by Delta State Ministry of Environment, Fresh Angle gathered from a credible source.
The returnee youths who were allegedly branded criminals by Ayakoromo Community leaders have been asked to pay fifty thousand naira each (N50, 000.00) before they will be re admitted into the community. The N50, 000.00 demand may not be unconnected with the controversial huge sums of money running into millions of naira allegedly paid for the second time to the youths by Delta State government to vacate the illegally occupied land opposite the NPA Miller waterside.
Fresh Angle gathered that despite all entreaties by leader of the youths who is reported to be nursing political ambition, leaders of the Burutu Community have refused to back down, a situation that have become source of concern to the state government and security agencies.
It would be recalled that the affected youths and some of their counterparts settled opposite the NPA Miller waterside in the wake of the Warri crisis and the nearby Ekurede Itsekiri community, subsequently laid claim to ownership of the land.
The Delta State Ministry of Environment led by its commissioner, Mr. Frank Omare recently supervised the demolition of the makeshift structures under the watchful eyes of stern looking security men and the affected Ijaw youths who have since made the area a business beehive as well as temporary homes, immediately demanded the payment of about N800m compensation. The state government which is rumored to be planning a project in the location allegedly agreed to pay some amount to the Ijaw youths to the anger of Ekurede Itsekiri community who is laying clam to the land.