The National President of the Niger Delta Students’ Union Government (NIDSUG), Comr. Scott Ogunseri, has pleaded with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to rise up and halt the disorder ravaging Okuama and Okoloba communities in Delta State.
Ogunseri made the plea on Saturday during a press conference at the union’s national secretariat.
He decried the current situation in the communities, saying school children were the most affected as they can no longer go to school.
“I plead with the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Sen. Bola Ahmed Tunubu, to rise up to the occasion and save the people of Okuama and Okoloba Communities in Delta State and allow the students in certificate classes to participate in the forthcoming national examinations that are knocking at the door,” Ogunseri said.
“The ongoing disorder has really affected the school children who share a bigger portion of the current sufferings in their land. They have been at home for ages now due to discombobulation present in these communities.
“Mr, President, an elder can’t be in the house and the pregnant nanny goat gives on its tether. Please rise up, Okuama and Okoloba Communities are on fire. The academic community is witnessing a major setback amidst this current harsh situation ravaging the society. I believe the President is a father figure and a man of integrity who loves his children genuinely, notwithstanding their shortcomings. Please intervene in this situation, because the load is becoming heavier on him that carries it,” he said.
Ogunseri said farmers, market men and women, civil servants and other societal growth contributors were indoors, with nothing to cater for themselves and their families, adding that if the situation was not well managed, it could lead to insecurity and threaten national integration.
“Our children instead of being in school learning, have recently developed a hobby of chasing rats and lizards at home due to the recent clampdown in Okuama and Okoloba communities. The development of every society starts with the education of the youth. If these children do not soldier academically with their mates in other neighbouring states, it will cause another disrepair in the academic calendar of most schools cum the students’ academic journey,” he said.
A 400 level student of Mass Communication in the University of Benin, Dagbo Olaegbe, said the current situation has thrown up a lot of challenges for his Ijaw people in Okuama and Okoloba communities as it has “caused a standstill to the development in the community”.
He implored the Tinubu administration, through the Minister of Defence, “to put a halt to the precarious moment ravaging the people of Okuama and Okoloba”.
