•Students read by candlelight, businesses collapse
By Ochuko Akuopha
ASABA — For over 15 years, the people of Isoko nation, an ethnic nationality blessed with over 100 oil wells and eight flow stations, have been living in what they describe as “total darkness,” even as the rest of Delta State moves forward.
The situation has become so dire that students now read by candlelight in the 21st Century, businesses are folding up daily, and investors are shunning the land that produces the very oil that powers Nigeria.
Last Thursday, the anger of an entire people boiled over as indigenes and residents, under the aegis of Isoko Need Light and the Isoko Peoples Movement (IPM), converged at the entrance of Government House, Asaba, demanding urgent action from Governor Sheriff Oborevwori.
