Warri — Ijaw National Human Rights Organisation (INHRO), has condemned the lingering communal dispute, which has led to reprisal attacks between the Odimodi and Ogulagha Ijaw communities and urged immediate end to the hostilities.

The group also attributed the spate of violence and communal crises in many parts of the Niger-Delta to the Land Use Decree by former President Olusegun Obasanjo's military regime in 1978.

It also carpeted multi-national oil companies' for their alleged insincere relationship with host communities in the Niger-Delta, including Ijaw communities.

These formed part of the issues discussed at an emergency meeting held yesterday at the PTI Conference Centre, Effurun, Warri.

The meeting, which attracted many Ijaw leaders, was presided over by President of INRO, Olotu Festus Koremene, issued a communiqué on the dispute and other national issues.

The group, however, advised the two communities to realise they are kith-and-kin, while acknowledging the mediating role of prominent Ijaw leaders as far back as 2002.