The Port Harcourt Warkirike Aborigenes said they have opened an email and other social communication channels for the purpose of communication through correspondences and feedbacks of its day to day activities saying that the construction of its websites had begun.
The president of the social cultural and political organization of Wakirike people, Mr. Derrick Achese Omie made this known in Port Harcourt during an expanded exco meeting recently. Mr. Derrick pointed out that all relevant information concerning Port Harcourt Aborigines, Okrika people and the 1913 Hargrove Harcourt Agreements and others would be found on the website, adding that Aborigines Chiefs should make themselves relevant to effect change.
Derrick recalled that he became the chairman of Aborigenes at the age of 33, as he has served the body for nearly 25 years. Speaking further, the Aborigenes President alleged that he and his members had approached the Rivers State government through the Ministry of Education for the establishment of Community Girls Secondary School for the girl child education and the upgrading of Comprehensive Secondary School to Polytechnic, pointing out that the Borikiri axis and other Aborigines owned communities in Port Harcourt have no school for the girl child. He however, informed the gathering that lack of land was the problem even when the state government was ready to set up one.
Meanwhile, Mr. Acheseomie said he was not happy to continue to handle internal crises instead of external challenges as regards to the political setting of Port Harcourt city, saying that he has set up a reconciliation and other committees to handing such matters, including the formal registration of the organization. According to him, chairmen and elders of communities should manage their affairs first, before coming to the Aborigenes, maintaining that there were more than 52 sub-communities (polos) within the Aborigines Communities in Port Harcourt.
However, shortly after the meeting Chief Iseberechirimuma Yemaiyaye, Chairman, Council of Chiefs of Port Harcourt Aborigines said since he came on board he has been working around the clock to ensure stability, recognition of the chiefs in the Port Harcourt City Council of Chiefs, in collaboration with Abuloma Council of Chiefs, among others. Chief Yemaiyaye further claimed that he had spoken to the principal of Enitonia High Secondary School during the school’s annual Inter-House Sports, to find ways for the establishment of Co-education. ###
