Obiano, Wada move to end border skirmishes

on July 24, 2014 / in News 2:40 am / Comments
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By Nwabueze Okonkwo

AWKA—Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has reached out to his Kogi State counterpart, Mr. Idris Wada, to put an end to the killings and destruction of property in their areas.

Communities in the two states have been locked in clashes over oil discovered in the border between both states.
Obiano, who spoke at a private hospital in Onitsha after visiting victims attacked by gunmen from Kogi State at a fishing community of Aguleri-Otu, Anambra East Local Government Area, said the two state governments would no longer tolerate the ugly situation.

The governor said: “We are working out a comprehensive strategy and modalities to entrench lasting peace and check excesses of the miscreants.
“The attack has nothing to do with the oil producing area as some people claim, but an aggression by some misguided persons.”

He enjoined Aguleri people to remain calm and not to take laws into their hands as the government was already on top of the situation.
He directed immediate transfer of the victims from the private hospital to Borromew Specialist Hospital in Onitsha for better treatment, assuring that the state government would settle the bills.
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At the last meeting chaired by the Director General of the
National Boundary Commission, Dr. M.B. Ahmad, with the
deputy governors of the two states and a representative of
the surveyor general of the federation in attendance, it was
noted that the Anambra/Kogi interstate boundary was the
boundary of the former Northern and Eastern regions described in the legal notice No 126 of 1954. [b]However, the people of Kogi were said to be insisting that
despite the demarcated boundary between the old Kabba
and old Onitsha provinces, the oil deposits in Omambala
River belong to them.

THIS GOES TO PROVES THAT THE BOUNDARY DEMARCATION HAVE BEEN COMPLETED BY NBC AND THE OIL WELLS CLEARLY IN ANAMBRA STATE BUT THE KOGI PEOPLE ARE INSISTING THAT DESPITE THE DEMARCATION USING THE MAP OF NIGERIA, LEGAL NOTICE 126 OF 1954, MAP OF ONITSHA AND KABBA PROVINCE THE OIL WELLS BELONG TO THEM.


Anambra governor spoke when a delegation from Awka Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture paid him a courtesy call recently at the government house Awka, where he also revealed that when Orient Petroleum is completed, it would produce an initial capacity of twenty thousand barrels of oil per day which would attract oil and gas industries to the state.
The Governor also said that the government will also take steps to enroll the state into the membership of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), even as the boundary adjustment with Kogi State is almost completed which has made it clear that the oil wells were in Anambra State. He affirmed that the state would soon approach the National Assembly for necessary legal framework to enable the state enjoy the benefits of being an oil producing state.
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Ahmad said that the commission`s technical committee met with the Anambra and Kogi officials in 2013 to resolve the boundary disputes.
He said that a joint field team was constituted to begin the tracing and provisional demarcation of the boundary.

He said that the team had traced about 75 per cent of the boundary before it was stalled because access to the river Anambra was blocked by water hyacinth. This is as at 2013, currently, the boundary demarcation have been completed.

http://www.hallmarknews.com/nbc-to-fast-track-demarcation-of-ebon%E2%80%8Byi-cross-river-boundary/

We Igbos are fustrated in Nigeria, our safety has been compromised alot in this contraption, how can federal troops guarding an oil faclitiy inform insurgents that the owners of the property are around, they were there and fight started, they could not quench it because they have ulterior motives.

How can all the commissioners of police in SE be of the terrorist Hausa foolanis stock?

All the police in SE are not Igbos, all the Military guarding SE are not Igbos,

Igbos in the military are those sent to fight Boko Haram, this week one was killed by air mishap, last time some were smoked by BH.

How many Gambaris have died in the hands of the BH attack on our military, why are they fleeing North only to come to East and live comfortably?

Obiano mind you Igala people are terrorist, this one your sounding like a broken record, dont go there trying to make peace, it will only take heart of Israel to handle terrorists to submission.

A lot of kogite are in the army, so I'm not surprised they are sabotaging the security process.

if by now Anambra is not in NDDC then something seriously wrong somewhere

abeg make dey NDDC allawee flow

BuddahMonk: We Igbos are fustrated in Nigeria, our safety has been compromised alot in this contraption, how can federal troops guarding an oil faclitiy inform insurgents that the owners of the property are around, they were there and fight started, they could not quench it because they have ulterior motives.

How can all the commissioners of police in SE be of the terrorist Hausa foolanis stock?

All the police in SE are not Igbos, all the Military guarding SE are not Igbos,

Igbos in the military are those sent to fight Boko Haram, this week one was killed by air mishap, last time some were smoked by BH.

How many Gambaris have died in the hands of the BH attack on our military, why are they fleeing North only to come to East and live comfortably?

Obiano mind you Igala people are terrorist, this one your sounding like a broken record, dont go there trying to make peace, it will only take heart of Israel to handle terrorists to submission.

I agree with you