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Diaspora Group Criticizes Ondo Government’s Neglect Of Ikale Coastal Areas

October 12, 2015

The diaspora group stated that industries such as the Oluwa Glass Factory and Cassava Processing Industry in Ikale have been abandoned by the government and could have provided thousands of job opportunities for youth and unemployed residents in the State.

The Overseas Ikale Patriotic Congress (OIPC), a diaspora group, has issued a statement, obtained by SaharaReporters, condemning the lack of socio-economic development and infrastructure projects in the Ikale area and coastal communities of Ondo State. In the statement signed by its Chairman Iyiola Aiyeku the organization vowed to use every legal method to ensure the State government was held to account.

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OIPC was particularly concerned with the abandonment of key industries in the Ikale land by Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s administration.

The diaspora group stated that industries such as the Oluwa Glass Factory and Cassava Processing Industry in Ikale have been abandoned by the government and could have provided thousands of job opportunities for youth and unemployed residents in the State.

The statement stressed that the continuous electricity blackouts in the area have bedeviled the socio-political lives of the people and perpetual darkness has enveloped the communities for more than a year.

“We intend to organize the Ikale World Conference where presentations will be made to the government on the injustice, marginalization, and underdevelopment of Ikale area.”

It continued by saying that the “total and deliberate neglect of Ikale land amounts to genocide of our people and it does not destroy only this generation it also ruined the coming generation.”

The OIPC condemned the continuous electricity blackout and infrastructural in the Ikale area, noting that it has hamstringed the socio-economic life of the people since last year December.

“We observed with keen interest that blackout and infrastructural abandonment had resulted in total economic collapse with its unimaginable consequences; welders could not work, electronic repairing is becoming impossible and businessmen are moving out of the land”, it said

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