By Nosa Akenzua Asaba
Stakeholders from Okpe Kingdom in Delta State have called on well meaning sons and daughters of the kingdom to invest and establish industries in the area to mitigate the scourge of insecurity that had hindered the development of the locality over the years.
The stakeholders, who canvassed this at a one day security summit organised by the Okpe Youth Council in partnership with the Centre for Development, Sapele in Orerokpe, the ancestral home of the Okpe Nation, equally urged the people to influence investors to the kingdom to boost the socioeconomic activities of the area.
The summit with the theme, “Security As Sine Qua Non For Development-Okpe Kingdom In Perspective”, had in attendance top notch security experts in the kingdom.
The Orodje called on residents of the kingdom to provide full support to security agents in achieving a secured and peaceful Kingdom.
The Orodje, who was represented by the Duke of Orerokpe District, Prince Ambassador Godwin Ejiyeren, said that no investors could invest in an unsecured environment and appealed to his subjects to shun any acts capable of truncating the prevailing peace in the kingdom inorder to woo investors to the kingdom.
The Chairman of the occasion, Former Minister of Information, Okakuro Prof. Oyovbaire, in his opening remarks lamented the rising spate of insecurity in the country and Okpe Kingdom which, he said, was not insulated from the security challenges and commended the Okpe Youth Council for organising the summit.
