By Gab Ajuwa

TO discourage corrupt enrichment by both public  and private sector individuals, the elders of Ugbodede, an Itsekiri community in Warri South Local Council of Delta State, have declared that the community’s land is not for sale to persons with dubious backgrounds and intentions.

In a press statement jointly signed by the community’s Head, Olara-Oja Pa Overside Okotie and spokesman, Pa Omagba Dudun, the community elders said: ‘’We have observed with disdain the tendency for corrupt enrichment by persons, both in the public and private sectors of the Nigerian society and have, therefore, resolved in our own small way, to discourage such act by refusing to sell any piece of our valuable land to them.

“We align with the vision of a progressive Nigeria, currently canvassed by President Muhammadu Buhari as well as our own Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa.’’

No person with a dubious background or intention will buy or acquire an inch of Ugbodede community land.”

Ugbodede is situated along Warri River, opposite the jetty of the Warri Refinery Petroleum Company (WRPC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) and is host to the first crude oil flow station managed by Shell BP Delta State.