A group under the auspices of Diebiri Progressive Initiative (DPI), has threatened the Delta State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa that it will take laws into its hands over the inability of successive governments to resetle the people of Diebiri community in Warri South West council area, Delta State.The people of Diebiri community were sacked from their ancestral home during a communal clash between Ogbe-Ijoh and Aladja communities 23 years ago.
But the group, in a communique by Comrade Peter Egberibo, Comrade Esegha Werinina and Comrade Quinton Tekedor, Chairman, Secretary and PRO (DPI) respectively, threatened to take laws into their hands if Governor Okowa fails to address the issue.
The group lamented that the people of Diebiri community have been cut off from participating in the political affairs of the state, adding that they have also been marginalized politically and economically.
The communique reads in part: “We have resolved that, DIEBIRI Kingdom, a Kingdom in Warri South West Local Government Area was sacked from her ancestrial land some 23 years ago because of a communial class between Ogbe-Ijoh and Aladja.
“So we are ready to use any means possible to help ourselves since the State Government have deem it fit not to attend to this broad day evil perpetrated by the Aladja people against the good people of DIEBIRI Kingdom.
“We have also resolved that, the unemployment in Batan field is so alarming, that we are ready to ask the companies within our area to do the right thing. We need to be employed adequately.
“We have also resolved that, In Warri South West Local Government Area, the DIEBIRI people have been relegated to the background, we are not in the scheme of things at all,we want the government to do the needful.”
