In a bid to immediately arrest the existential challenge of the ocean surge in Ugborodoland, the Ologbotsere of Warri Kingdom, Chief Ayiri Emami has taken the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Chief Dr. Samuel Ogbuku and his team, to Ode-Ugborodo, headquarters of the Ugborodo Federated Communities in the Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State.
The visit gave the NDDC boss and his team who were received by the Eghare-Aja of Ugborodoland/Chairman of Ugborodo Community Council of Elders, Eghare Daniel Uwawah, other members of the Council of Elders and prominent Ugborodo Community indigenes from far and near, an opportunity to carry out a firsthand accessment of the existential challenge the Ugborodo Community is dealing with as a result of the perennial ocean surge which has washed away over half of Ugborodoland and threatening to completely erase from the surface of the earth the oil-rich Ugborodo Community and host to Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) and Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC).
Eghare Uwawah among other demands, pleaded with the NDDC boss and his team to urgently put machinery in place to arrest the unyielding ocean surge through an immediate world class shore protection of Ugborodoland, just the way a permanent solution was found in the bar beach area of Victoria Island, Lagos.
Responding, the NDDC boss pledged to take necessary steps to deal with the existential challenge confronting Ugborodo Community, even as he assured that there would not be a disconnect between the the interventionist federal agency with headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and the yearnings of the various communities across the Niger Delta region.
