Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has decried the proliferated number of communities in a boundary dispute in and outside the state. He said that his administration will continue to tackle such issues with tact and wisdom for a peaceful resolution.
Governor Okowa who made this position known at the Government House, Asaba, when he received a report of the Commission of Enquiry into the boundary dispute between Oleh and Ozoro promised to process all the panel’s findings and recommendations through the normal process.
The Chairman of the seven-man Judicial Commission of Enquiry into the Oleh and Ozoro land dispute, Marcel Okoh, at the official presentation of the report, took a trip down memory lane by telling the Governor efforts put in place by the panel before arriving at the event of the day which include aligning itself to the government’s terms of reference, publicising and educating the communities and calls for submission of memòrandum
Okoh dissected the various findings of the panel and concluded that all the feuding families and communities were tired of the crisis as contained in the positions of the parties concerned while the eight weeks assignment he said deepened their knowledge.
Governor Okowa reiterated that promotion of peace was the cardinal principle of the panel’s mission noting that nothing stands in absence of peace and dialogue.
The Governor thanked Justice Okoh’s seven-man panel for delivering on its mandate adding that under a peaceful environment, the state can collectively achieve much.