Communal clashes: Nigerian Govt urged to establish army barracks in Okuama

The Okoloba Federated Community successful Delta has called connected the Federal Government to found an service barracks successful neighboring Okuama Town arsenic a strategy to tackle communal clashes and killings successful the area.

The Chairman of Okoloba Federated Community, Clement Koki, made the telephone successful an interrogation with the News Agency of Nigeria successful Lagos.

Recall that connected March 14, astatine least, 17 subject unit were killed successful Okuama pursuing a communal clash successful the area.

The unit attached to the 181 Amphibious Battalion were responding to a distress telephone erstwhile they were ambushed and killed.

Okuama, an Urhobo assemblage in-between 2 Ijaw communities; Akugbena and Okoloba, is successful Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta.

Koki, who condemned the sidesplitting of the officers and soldiers, said that establishing an service barracks astatine Okuama would beforehand bid successful the area.

“We don’t privation bloodbaths again. We person mislaid capable people, including the finest subject officers that were killed,” helium said.

He sympathised with neighboring communities for impermanent inconveniences connected them occasioned by information measures enactment successful spot by the subject to forestall further crises.

He said that constitution of an service barracks would extremity oregon trim conflicts and killings successful the area.