By Archibong Emmanuel
CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – One of the youth leaders in Effi, Okuni community in Ikom local government area of Cross River State, Comrade Alobi Ndifon, has asked the Executive Director of Rainforest Resource and Development Centre (RRDC), Prince Odey Oyama, to tender payment evidence for N40 million compensation money that he allegedly collected from the Cross River State Government for the superhighway on behalf of the community.
Ndifon made the accusation during an interactive session with newsmen in Calabar, last Thursday, accusing Oyama of lacking the moral justification to accuse Okim, who is their community’s Legal Adviser, of not being transparent, as Oyama himself is not transparent, accusing him of causing divisions within the community.
He urged Oyama to stop spreading malicious propaganda against the Okim, accusing Oyama of fostering a divisive tendency rather than unity in the community.
He said that Oyama’s claim of a secret agreement between Barr. Ichire Okim, Effi Community Lawyer and a Chinese national, has been described as “totally unfounded” and lacking evidence to back his claims.
Ndifon demanded that Oyama produce evidence to support his claims or retract his statements, saying that the allegations are damaging to Okim’s reputation.
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He accused Oyama of prioritising his selfish interests over the well-being of the community, causing harm to the community’s unity and progress.
Ndifon stated that Oyama’s actions are motivated by a desire to destroy Okim’s reputation and advance his own interests, rather than working towards the betterment of the Olulumo Community.
Ndifon demanded that Oyama produce evidence to support his claims or retract his statements, saying that the allegations are damaging to Okim’s reputation.
He accused Oyama of prioritising his selfish interests over the well-being of the community, causing harm to the community’s unity and progress.
Efforts to get Oyama to react to the issue failed as text messages and telephone calls were put across to him after a failed attempt to speak with him yielded no results, as Oyama neither replied to the text messages nor replied to the telephone calls.
