RESIDENTS of Okuama-Ewu community, Ewu Clan in Ughelli-South Local Government Area of Delta State may unwittingly be heading for a collision course with Delta State government, given their seeming refusal to accept the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camp being prepared for them at Ewu.
The residents returned to their homeland last Wednesday from the forests where they took cover immediately after the Nigerian Army pulled out its troops from the riverside community, after a 54-day siege.
Vanguard learned that the IDP camp management committee, headed by the former Editor of the Guardian newspaper, Mr. Abraham Ogbodo, did not expect the residents to move to Okuama-Ewu, as the government planned to first receive them at the Ewu camp, after which the planning for resettlement and rehabilitation would commence.
“We raised the alarm that our neighbors were looting our farms and fishing traps while the army was there. but they did not believe us. You saw that no sooner did the soldiers leave than they came in full force to reap from our sorrows. “The work is far gone. The projection is to round off the camp preparation by this weekend and invite the governor for inspection, and then take a date to open the camp sometime next week,” he said.
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