Evwreni Crisis: Peace C’ttee Moves To Reconcile Estranged Monarch With Aggrieved Kingmakers

Following threatens by a group of Kingmakers in Evwreni to dethrone the estranged HRM Oghenekevwe Kumane as the Ovie of Evwreni Kingdom, the Chief Convener of Evwreni Crisis Resolution and Peace Committee, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor,  has started a fresh moves to reconcile the parties.

BIGPENNGR recalls the committee had on Saturday urged the parties to the prolonged crisis to sheathe their swords while calling on the police to disband and disarmed the troubled community vigilante groups.

Emerhor, in a statement released and personally signed by him, acknowledged the grievances of the kingmakers  and stated that it was part of the reasons why the Peace Committee was set up in the first place.

According to him, “the Committee is fully abreast of the issues surrounding the crisis in Evwreni and the numerous civil litigations that have arose therefrom. This is why a subcommittee for Reconciliation and Out of Court Settlement headed by the Chief Convener was set up to handle  grievance resolution.”

Emerhor stated further “that it was not the expectation of the Committee that every aggrieved person or group will immediately jump at the Peace initiative. The Committee clearly appreciates the deep divisions that the crisis has created and the hard stances that currently exist among the brother combatants.

“The Committee clearly has its work cut out for it. The Committee will be meeting with this group of Kingmakers and listen to their positions with a view to reconciliation and peaceful coexistence in Evwreni. The group and every other aggrieved persons including victims of violence and death are all Evwreni people. The Committee believes everyone will finally put the survival of the community first above their individual interests”

Emerhor concluded by calling on the group and everyone else to work with the Committee and give peace a chance.