People of Awara Community, Ohaji in the Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State have declared their intention to join the Ikwerre LGA of Rivers State, according to a report by the Punch.
The Community said they are convinced that Rivers State will be better for them, alleging that Imo State had denied them of their political rights.
The people made their intention known in Owerri, the Imo State capital, in a communiqué signed by their community leader, Friday Keruo, on Saturday.
Giving more reasons for their stand, the people contended that the slot for the position of the Managing Director of Imo State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, billed for their area, was diverted to Egbema community.
“The position of the MD of ISOPADEC remains our turn and be given to us. We say this because Egbema, where it is recently diverted to, has been sharing it since ages with our sister LGA, Oguta,” the communiqué stated.
They, however, maintained that their community was a major oil-producing area in the state and economically viable but regretted that they still lacked good water, school, market, electricity, hospital and other basic amenities of life since the state was created.