Lack of higher educational institute, bane of Okpe underdevelopment PG

By Akpokona Omafuaire
WARRI - THE President General of Okpe Kingdom, Chief Robert Onome has said that lack of tertiary institutions such as colleges of education, polytechnics or university in the kingdom  has hampered the socio -economic development of the people.

Onome stated this at the end of  year Annual General Assembly which held in the kingdom’s town.
He said that Orerokpe, one of the oldest Local Government headquarters  in the state  has not fared well in recent times as it has infrastructural deficiency.
He said, "Education is a  basic tool for human and capital development as it gives room for socio- economic development of any nation."
The President General therefore called on the state and the federal government to do the needful in this regard to ensure that a university comes to the area.
Onome also charged Nigerians especially the Okpe people to register for the on going Independent Electoral Commission's voter registration to enable them exercise their franchise in the forth coming elections.
The President General who enumerated  some of the challenges of the kingdom to include the extinction of the local language, nonchalant attitude of the youths towards the participation in the available  skills acquisition programmes, indiscriminate sales of Okpe land by the people, among others.
He said Okpe people are unique and need to enjoy infrastructural  development. He therefore charged all sons and daughters to be peaceful and  law abiding for the kingdom to experience the needed growth and development.
Earlier in n his welcome speech, Chairman of the occasion, Chief Dick Gberevbie expressed joy with the sons and daughters of the kingdom to have come together to rob minds again to move the kingdom forward.
He said the kingdom notwithstanding the challenges,  has experienced some levels of growth and development over the years.
He noted that the Okpe Union is now 87 yeas old adding, that the people have cause to rejoice for its survival and continued relevance to the socio-cultural development of the father land.
Gberevbie therefore sued for continuous cooperation to usher in peace and unity among the people both at home and abroad saying, that it is the only way the kingdom can move forward .
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