Malami:

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja

A Niger Delta Activist Mr. Sheriff Mulade, has warned that the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami is set to precipitate fresh ethnic crisis in Delta State, over his recent memo to the National Assembly on the location of the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko.

Mulade, a kinsman of leader of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo who spoke to journalists in Warri, accused the AGF of secretly conspiring with the Itsekiris to deceive the federal government and urged the National Assembly to ignore the memo.

It was learnt that Malami had in a memo dated October 17, 2017, to the Clerk of the National Assembly, advised the change of the name of the location of the Nigerian Maritime University, from Okerenkoko to Okerenghigho.

The Itshekiri and the Ijaw have been at loggerheads over the ownership of the land where the Maritime University is located.

While the Itsekiri claimed that the land is Okerenghigho, an Itsekiri name which was allegedly manipulated and named Okerenkoko by the Ijaw after the crisis between the two ethnic groups.

But the Ijaw had insisted that the site name is Okerenkoko with claims that there are documents to prove their ownership of the land.

Mulade, a former Chairman of Kokodiagbene community in Gbaramatu kingdom in Warri South-west Local Government area of Delta State, said: “The memo from the AGF on the location of the Nigerian Maritime University Okerenkoko is a new diversionary strategy to delay the smooth take- off of the University, but this will not be accepted.

“It will interest the public to know, particularly the presidency that the AGF has secretly conspired with the Itsekiris to fraudulently deceive and corruptly dupe the federal government.

“Information available to us clearly indicated that the AGF and his team had 40% sharing understanding from the re-acquisition of land thereby lobbying the federal government and other Authorities to relocate the Maritime University Okerenkoko”, he alleged.

Mulade therefore urged the National Assembly to dump the memo which he said was capable of generating fresh crisis in the Niger-Delta Region, especially between the Ijaws and Itsekiris of Delta State.

He also asked the federal government to call the AGF to order.