By: Ovedhe Jerry.
Following the disintegration of Igbuku and Enuru Communities from Owhelogbo Community, Igbuku has acquired a certificate of registration with the Community Development Department of the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community and Social Development Asaba, Delta State as a Community Development Association.
According to the President General, Dr. Israel Adaigho in a press chat with our correspondent disclosed that, Igbuku is registered as a body under the auspices of Igbuku Community Development Union (Igbuku Owhe) in line with the dictates and or conditions stipulated by the Delta State Government adding that, the registration is to reaffirm and recognize Igbuku Commuity as a distinct independent Community in Owhe Clan.
When asked on the creation of Igbuku and Enuru from Owhelogbo as speculated, Adaigho allegedly responded thus: “What happened was not a creation but recognition to operate as an independent Community. The marriage between Igbuku and Owhelogbo was unionism. Why we advocated for self rule and recognition is basically for grassroot development”.
Adaigho who noted that, Owhelogbo and Igbuku cannot be separated by biological relatedness explained that, the quest for democratic dividends in terms of social amenities like market, health centre, pipe-borne water, good road network among others together with the general development of Igbuku in particular and Owhe in general necessitated their pull-out from Owhelogbo Community Development Union to have an independent body even as he stressed the fact that, Owhelogbo and Igbuku are brothers in all ramifications.
He further, called on the good people of Igbuku Commuity to embrace love and unity in a bid to achieve a onerous goal for the advancement of Igbuku as a Community, Owhe as a clan and to contribute their quota to the growth of Isoko Nation; while calling on the State government to for patronage in the areas of infrastructural development.
