By VICTOR AHIUMA-YOUNG

A PUBLISHER and community leader in Agbor, Delta State, Mr. Steve Ashien, has blamed the underdevelopment of  Ika South and Ika North West Local Government Areas of the state, on poor leadership and lack of focus by past and current political representatives of the councils at all levels of governance.

Ashien, who spoke in Agbor, lamented the poor state of infrastructure in Agbor metropolis and other communities in Ikaland.

The publisher of Ika Weekly, a community tabloid based in Agbor, expressed disappointment that there was nothing to show in terms of real development in Ika land, even when the area had produced a former acting governor, two former speakers of the Delta State House of Assembly, a Secretary to the State Government and other high positions in government.

He condemned the greed, selfishness and ostentatious life style and other anti-people tendencies of the political class and urged them to turn a new leaf for the sake of posterity.

Advising Nigerians not to be docile on issues that affect their individual and collective well being, the community leader urged them to rise up and take their destinies in their hands.