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Okotie Eboh Wants FG to Probe Warri Crisis
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This Day (Lagos)
February 8, 2003
Posted to the web February 10, 2003
Jaiyeola Andrew
Asaba
As the Warri crisis between the Urhobos and Itsekiris escalates, the federal government has been called upon to urgently institute a high powered panel to investigate and resolve the crisis.
The warring groups were also enjoined to sheath their swords in the interest of peace, progress, unity of the state and the country at large.
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Making the call in Asaba yesterday in a chat with THISDAY, Chief Adolo Okotie-Eboh said the warring groups should employ dialogue in resolving their differences, adding that rancour and mistrust was a bane to rapid development in the state.
Okotie-Eboh who came second behind Barr. James Manager in the repeat PDP primaries for Delta South senatorial district, noted that the riot had a multiple and negative effect on the voting patterns during the PDP primaries.
"The only thing that pains me was the timing of the riot which happened at a specific time when my people were being accredited to vote. Then suddenly gunshots were heard and my peoples' neighbourhood were being invaded," the senatorial aspirant said.
He reiterated that the invasion of his peoples' home was a destruction orchestrated by his opponents to see him lose the primaries, adding that they waited till my people were about voting which was a big distraction on our side and most of my supporters had to run back to their homes to see what is happening to their families."
Okotie-Eboh who blamed the security agents for their lapses in preventing the riot, also said the security agents as professionals should have had a pre-knowledge of the riot the previous day and prevent it from being carried out.
He however commended the state commissioner of police, Mr. John Hamza Ahmadu for his professionalism in handling the security situation at the voting venue.
The senatorial aspirant appealed to all the warring sections to live in peace and harmony with one another, assuring his people who lost their loved ones and those injured of his resolve to do everything possible in minimising their pain.
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