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By Young Erhiurhoro, Warri
Evwreni kingdom, which majorly comprised Evwreni and Unenurhie communities in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State was recently thrown into mourning as the remains of the late Mr. Sylvester Adjogbe, aged 34 was buried amidst tears.
The young graduate, who was full of life, was gruesomely murdered on July 1, 2020 by a group of “community miscreants” as a result of alleged internal fracas brewing in the community.
Speaking to newsmen immediately the body was committed to Mother Earth, the chairman of Unenurhie community youths, Mr. Friday Diamond aka ‘Ogbo,’ who led other community youths to the burial said, “Today, the entire Evwreni kingdom, as you can see everybody here is thrown into mourning and deep pains in our hearts as we lost this our dear brother and friend to the cold hands of death.
“The person we are burying today was a very dear friend to me on a personal ground. All of us went to Eni Grammar School, here in Evwreni. And since that time, we were very close in everything. He was also my family member at Unenurhie community. Their mother was from our community. The deceased was a man of peace, full of life and much expectation before he was murdered by some hoodlums. We will definitely miss his rib-cracking jokes and stories. May his gentle and quiet soul rest in peace.”
When asked by our reporter to comment on community crises and the involvement of our youths, the vice chairman of Unenurhie youths, Mr. Onovughe Ephron, said, “Though the matter has since been reported to the police and the police are currently doing their investigations, but as a youth leader in the kingdom, I want to advise our youths to always think of their future instead of embarking on violence and crime whenever there’s trouble in a community. And to our leaders too, they should try as much as possible to resolve issues of community leadership and boundary disputes with peace and dialogue. They should stop sending these young men that would take over from them tomorrow as leaders to their early graves by providing them with firearms and dangerous weapons to kill opponents or anybody against them. This is very common with Urhobo and Isoko political and traditional leaders.
“Issues in a community should be resolved amicably and peacefully without spilling the blood of the innocent youths. And we the youths should be wise too. In all these inter or intra communal crises, the youths are the people to pay with their blood and lives. After they have spilled our blood on the issue, they would now resolve and settle that issue again. These same people would dine and wine together after the number of people needed to kill had been killed. Yet, none of their children would join the bandwagon of killers and the killed. Unfortunately, they used us to prepare the way for their children to come into leadership to continue from where they would stop. Despite all these, we the youths still act foolishly in their hands because of little financial inducement which are mere peanuts; considering what they make with our blood. My advice to the youths is that, we should learn from these grievous mistakes and bitter experiences to become wise now.”
Also speaking in the same vein, a former youth chairman of the community, Comrade Avuoke Umukoro, paid glowing tributes to the deceased and also expressed condolence to the family.
Hear him: “And to the Adjogbe family, we register our condolences as youths of Unenurhie community for losing a handsome, hardworking and a young member of their family. The deceased in question was maternally related to Unenurhie community. The loss is tying together the entire Evwreni kingdom. Therefore, on behalf of Unenurhie youths, we want to appeal to the members of the Adjogbe family to pursue justice with peace in this case. We want justice to prevail at the end of the murder case to put a final stop to all these evil being perpetuated by some of our leaders in the community. We can’t continue to live under fear and pains when we have so much goodies around us.”
Meanwhile, the murder of late Sylvester Adjogbe has since been reported to the Nigerian Police and investigations are currently ongoing at the office of the Inspector General of Police in Abuja. The body of the late Sylvester Adjogbe was interred in his compound after a church service at St. Paul Catholic Church, Evwreni. He was survived by brothers and sisters, among who is Chief (Engr.) Samuel Adjogbe, a former executive director on Projects (EDP) on the board of the NDDC.
