Egheruaye Quarters further urged the court to grant an order of injunction restraining Shell Development Company from further paying monies due to them as compensation on the land to the defendants or any persons except them, just as they prayed the court to particularly restrain Timothy Igben, Darosha Emesa and George Idogun who are 8th, 9th and 10th defendants respectively from maltreating, discriminating and witch hunting the plaintiffs or doing any act whatsoever capable of prejudicing the plaintiffs.

President of MOSOP, Mr. Goodluck Diigbo, said “Ateke Tom’s readiness to give peace a chance at a point when most observers of happenings in the Niger Delta felt that the crisis in the region will escalate, is a pointer to the fact that it could be resolved within us.

Speaking at the Faculty of Law Distinguished Jurists lecture of Lagos State University, Sagay said, “how do you expect a free and fair election from INEC, when Maurice Iwu is a board member of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in disguise who would do anything to see his party win elections?”

He argued that “these problems notwithstanding, it is however, obvious that the major challenge of popular participation in the management of state affairs by the people themselves, has become sacrosanct in the present democratic dispensation.

Governor Amaechi also ordered the demolition of shops around the schools. He visited Community Secondary school, Rumuapara, and State School, Orogbum at D/Line, where he directed the construction of another model primary school, based on the high population of pupils in Orogbum.