By Bartholomew Madukwe

President-General of Ibusa Community Development Union, ICDU, Professor Tom Arinze, has called on sons and daughter of Ibusa Community in Delta State, to pull their resources together for the development of the community.

Speaking at a special meeting organised by Ibusa Think Tank Committee for Community Advancement, Lagos, he lamented that the Ibusa people had failed to form a united front.

In his address titled, “Operation: Bring Back our Town, Ibusa” Prof. Arinze explained that the major reason why Ibusa town had not achieved much in development strides was because the people have been singing with discordant tunes.

“Rather than pull our resources together, we have been operating along parallel lines,” he said.

For the past eight years under my leadership of ICDU, the themes of our Annual Conferences have centred on unity, love, peace, reconciliation and development in Ibusa. We have stated time without number, that you cannot have development without peace,” Prof. Arinze said.

Also speaking, a member of the House of Representatives representing Oshimili North in Delta State, Mrs Pat Ajudua, called on the people to raise a prayer team, saying Ibusa needed prayers and maintained that Ibusa town would be repositioned if unity was brought to the land.

“We will develop Ibusa. In my little way, I want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve you in the legislature. In whatever we are doing in government, you have to look at the heart. In the whole of Delta State, Ibuso and Oshimili North has attracted two high courts. Ibusa need prayers, let us raise a prayer team. When we pray for the love and peace of Ibusa, Ibusa will be united,” she said.

Ajudua acknowledged the efforts of Ibusa Think Tank Committee for Community Advancement, at providing security watch over its Community, saying “in particular, permit me to acknowledge your first of its kind monumental reception for a great son of Ibusa, the former Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Dele Ezeoba,” she added.

Chairman of the event, Ambassador Ignatius Olisemeka, lamented the decline in the development of the town and urged all sons and daughters of the town to be involved in repositioning the town.

He added that Ibusa town could not make any progress without unity, asking “how do we achieve unity in a community as fragile as ours, so fragmented and divided amongst itself? Ibuza is a town located 6 miles from Asaba, the present capital of Delta State, Nigeria, with an estimated population of 566,310 people.