Nigeria: NASS Urged to Revisit Toru-Ebe State Creation

2 September 2014

THE National Assembly has been urged to revisit the issue of creation of Toru-Ebe State for the Ijaws to correct the injustice meted out on them by past governments.

A legal practitioner and Olowobolowei of Egbema kingdom in Delta State, Chief Seliwei Baidi, said in a statement in Lagos that the demand for Toru-Ebe State was borne out of the fact that it was an economically viable, naturally located on the heart of the crude oil that sustained the nation and had sufficient population.

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