Olorogun Sleek Oshare has asserted that a land dispute caused the killing in Delta State.
Oshare made the assertion when he
appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
Last week, sixteen persons were killed in the Okuama community of Delta State, a tragedy that has elicited condemnation from Nigerian authorities.
Oshare, while providing insights into the incident on Monday, revealed that the military personnel were in the area to address a land dispute between two families in Okuama and Okoloba.
He said:
“The quarrel was just a land dispute between one family and another family and land disputes happen over and over again.
“One community felt that the other had a military connection and they were being pressured unnecessarily. The pressure is more on Okuoma and they don’t have anybody to speak for them.
“In the whole narrative, you don’t hear the name of the other community. Where is Okoloba? In the last two days, Okoloba has disappeared because they are also afraid.
“Sometimes, it is made to look as if it were an ethnic thing. It was just a dispute between individuals and Okoloba, which seems to have more connections.
“The families that were involved in the dispute are highly placed. Until we go into the real investigation, the truth will not come out.
“It is then the nation will come out to sympathize with the children, pregnant women, and old people who could have lost their lives in the random shootings.”
