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...For a better society... Friday, July 09 2004 Vol 17 No.131 News Editorial Politics Opinion Fashion Metro Sports Features Columnists Business Money/Market Maritime Aviation Motoring Rail/Road Warri: All 5 Ijaw clans reject peace deal SEGUN JAMES, Warri THE last has not been heard of the raging controversy over the recent peace accord signed between the Ijaw and Itsekiri of Warri as the leadership of the entire five Ijaw clans in the oil city have formally rejected the peace deal. The accord, which has been strongly criticised and rejected by the Ijaw national leadership was brokered by the state government in a bid to see peace restored to the crises-ridden Warri. The rejection by the five clans is coming on the heels of a statement credited to the state commissioner for Inter-Ethnic Relations and Conflict Resolution, Mr Macaulay Ovuozuorie that only one of the five Ijaw clans which signed the treaty rejected it. Ten leaders of the five clans in a communique issued in Warri, reiterated their opposition to the treaty saying that they would not be intimidated by any threat as the treaty is not in the interest of their people. The people said they were particularly opposed to the aspect of certain court judgements in respect of ownership of Warri. "Our position has always been that, those so called court judgements are not only fraudulent but preposterous, since they are judgements from cooked-up cases even though from our courts of law. They are all products of excessive manipulations of our people and obvious use of government machinery and influence, "according to the communique which was signed by Chiefs Agric Itoko, John Orubu, F. P. Oweikpodor, Philip Tonfawei and Ebis Money, among others. They insisted that "even what went to the Supreme Court and later to the Privy Council were all the same manipulated cases from the lower courts." While still claiming that the fundamental issues pertaining to the Warri crisis were not discussed, the people also frowned at the issue of external interference, saying that to draw a fine line of demarcation that other Ijaw from outside Warri should not interfere in the crisis is unfair as no such demarcation was made when Ijaws were being attacked and killed during the crisis. The latest dent on the peace accord came in the wake of the withdrawal of signatures by three Ijaw Chiefs who later claimed that they acted to hoodwink the Itsekiri. � 2004 @ Champion Newspapers Limited (All Right Reserved). Powered By dnetsystems.net dnet�

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