WARRI—AN Ugborodo community leader and member of Ogidigben Export Processing Zone, EPZ, Interface Committee, Mr. Godwin Ojogor, has distanced himself from a report which suggested that he gave the ownership of Kpokpo, an Ugborodo community, Warri South-West Local Government Area in Delta State, to the Ijaw of Gbaramatu.

Ojogor, who insisted that Itsekiri will not concede the deep sea port of the EPZ project to Ijaw of Gbaramatu, said that Kpokpo was owned by Ugborodo community in Warri South-West, “that is why the Ijaw, who are today claiming ownership burnt it during the last Warri crisis.”

He enjoined the Federal Government, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and the general public to disregard any report linking him to Ijaw’s claim of Kpokpo, noting that such statement did not emanate from him.

The report had claimed that the Itsekiri could allow the Ijaw to agitate for 50 per cent of only Kpokpo land that is in dispute which “they (Ijaw of Gbaramatu) are also laying claim to and not all the 300 hectares of land,” adding that “the deep sea port should be named after Ugborodo community, which has a larger part of the land in dispute.”