By Laja Thomas
THE Federal Government has been called upon to create Anioma State from the present Delta State, so as to assuage the suffering of  Anioma people, who have been allegedly marginalised in the scheme of things in the present Delta State.

Chief Okonmah Ngo-Martins, a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain and senatorial aspirant for Delta North Senatorial District, stated this,  when he paid a courtesy  visit on Chief Peter Okocha in Lagos, yesterday,  to intimate him of his senatorial ambition in the 2011 elections.

According to him, “Our people have suffered a lot, especially over the absence of social amenities and basic infrastructure in Oshimili, Ika and Ndokwa, such as public hospitals, education, good roads,  which have impacted on them by way of poverty. I, therefore, believe strongly in the creation of Anioma State to address this injustice done to my people over the years.”

On his programmes if elected into the Senate, he said “I intend to empower the people of Delta North if elected by initiating a mutual health insurance programme because one of the problems confronting our people is lack of money to take care of our sick loved ones.

I will get the assistance of our brothers in Diaspora to contribute to the scheme. It will work like social security system that operates in the developed world. I will give the various dilapidated public schools in Delta North a face lift so that there can be conducive atmosphere for learning in these schools. We will equally give scholarship to the indigents students, whose parents cannot afford to send them to school.”