Our recent visit to Lokoja for the coverage of the Peace song audition revealed a town fast growing into a commercial city. New businesses are surfacing while fun seekers are finding it easier to hang out as new clubs and classy hotels are seen everywhere. Our investigation revealed that the recent rise in the development of the confluence city is not unconnected to the Clannish/political crises rocking Okene and environs for some months now.As more Ebiras find refuge in the Confluence city, Landlords and business owners now enjoy higher patronage. The infrastructural developmental spirit of the Ebiras have been shifted to Lokoja for security purposes.
Among the refugees are Ebira elders, political office holders and politicians, women and children. There is a steady rise in the cost of acquiring landed properties as Ebira refugees compete for the best land to raise their new homes.
An observer, a resident in Lokoja who begged anonymity told EbiraView that some of the new settlers have put up their Okene based properties for sale, a development which he said is a testimony that those behind Ebira crises are achieving their aims.
Information from a source at the confluence city revealed that the affairs of a particular local government in Ebira land is now run from a mini guest house in Lokoja where the Chairman of the local government is suspected to be hiding from his thugs.
By Dr. Joseph Akomodi
ReplyDeleteNew York, USA
It is absurd that Ebira people could not learn from this stupidity. Our Politicians and Ebira thugs have turned our land into a ghoast City. What does that means? It means we the Ebira people have started to destroy and exterminate our land. If it is has gotten to the point where people are selling their properties to seek refugee in Lokoja. Then we are returning back to the stone ages.
I do not know when we shall learn. We have been called in Nigeria as babarians and all kind of names and yet we could not reason beyond our nose to say enough is enough. Shame on our leaders in Ebiraland.