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Warring Okpe, Itsekiri In Sapele Coalesce, Agree To Communal Tranquility

Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting

WARRING Okpe and Itsekiri community residents in Sapele, Delta State, have agreed to maintain a peaceful co-existence going forward.

The two ethnic nationality, who however, existential communality, coalesced at the Independence Cultural Day celebration held separately at different venues on Saturday in Sapele.

During the celebration, the two but intertwined divides paid each other a solidarity visit to felicitate together in brotherly love.

Leading a high-powered delegation from the Sapele Okpe community to the venue of the Itsekiri was the Sapele Local Government Area chairman, Chief Eugene Inoaghan and Chief Cyril Ogodo.

Speaking while receiving the delegation from Okpe Community, Chief Omolubi Newuwumi, of the Itsekiri stock, noted that the Itsekiris and the Okpes have always lived in peace and harmony.

He also averred that Sapele had always been a peaceful place where both the Itsekiri and Okpe lived in unity, and promised that they would not allow fifth columnists to rock the boat of cultural ties.

On the other hand, Chairman of Sapele Okpe Community, Chief Onoriode Temiagin, while receiving the delegation from their Itsekiri counterpart led by Chief Omolubi Newuwumi at the Okpe Hall, venue of the Okpe Youth Independence Cultural Day Celebration, opined that the Itsekiri and the Okpe are one.

According to him, some miscreants, who were against the peaceful co-existence of the Okpe and Itsekiri, were the ones bent on igniting animosity, but advised both parties sheathe the sword and embrace peace.

Stonix News recalled that commercial activities were, on Thursday September 29, grounded in Sapele, as some youths of the Sapele-Okpe Community occupied major roads to protest the arrest of the community youth chairman, Ekariko Obomine over an alleged land dispute.

The protesters had accused a prominent Abigborodo chief, an Itsekiri man, of having masterminded the arrest of the youth chairman over the land dispute.

The protesters, while craving for the unconditional release of the arrested chairman, had also rebuffed the plan by the Itsekiri to hold their separate Independence Anniversary celebration at their own venue.

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