Choba Youths Threaten Legal Action Over Water Project

Youths of Choba
community in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State have threatened to drag the Choba Council of Chiefs before a competent court of jurisdiction over the non-execution of a civic centre and a water project promised by Dufil Prima Limited in its Memorandum of Understanding with the community.
The concerned youths of Choba who said this in a petition addressed to the Paramount Ruler of Choba, also demanded for explanations on how the N1.6 million and N15 million being paid annually by Dufil Prima Limited and Wilbros were being spent, decried the non execution of the civic centre inspite of the fact that 170 plots of land belonging to Rumuokocha  were sold at the cost of N1.5 million each.
They also decried the continuous perpetration of same in traditional practices in the community as well as incessant suspension of chiefs, a situation that has reduced the members of the council of chiefs to seven instead of nineteen.
They also decried some unfriendly labour practices of some of the companies operating in the community and blamed it on the attitude of the Council of Chiefs.
Reacting to the petition at his palace in Choba, the Nyenweli of Choba Eze Raymond O.W. Okocha described the allegations as baseless and requested for the identities of those behind the petition. Eze Okocha said that the alleged N1.6 million being paid by Dufil Prima Limited was for the landlords that gave the company their lands, while both the civic centre and water projects were on course.
He urged the public to ignore the petition.