Nigeria: We Want Peace, Okomu Warring Group Pleads With Obaseki, Others

Benin-City — Peace is finally returning to Okomu community in Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State after many years of communal crisis.

Signal to this was given by Lawrence Yanbor, who is known as the Chief Priest and Spiritual Master of the Okomu Ijaw Liberation Movement, in a message to the state Governor, Godwin Obaseki, last Monday morning.

In the message cited by THISDAY in Benin-city, Yanbor, while narrating how the crisis began, said: “For many years, we felt oppressed,…