Special Feature: Infrastructural Decay In Ojobo Oil Producing Community Burutu, John Perekpo Calls On FG, Gov Okowa, Shell, NGOs, Philanthropists Prompt Intervention

Special Feature: Infrastructural Decay In Ojobo Oil Producing  Community Burutu, John Perekpo Calls On FG, Gov Okowa, Shell, NGOs, Philanthropists Prompt Intervention

Francis Tayor


Ojobo is one of the renown communities in Ijaw land. It is well known and recognised by most personalities in Ijaw land and other tribes in Delta State. The famous Zuokumo primary school and Gbesa Memorial Grammar School which is now known as Gbess Grammar School have produced great men in Burutu,  Delta State and Nigeria at large. The Ojobo man or woman is always proud of their community with the appellation " ene Ojobo ke ene Ojobo".

They first embraced education  before most other towns in Ijaw land. But these story is turning the other way round because members of this community can no longer boast of any meaningful development in the community due to neglect by the state government and SHELL who operate a divide and rule game.





The structures in Gbesa Grammar school, Zuokumor Primary school are all fallen. No adequate teachers, lack of science labs, no library, no portable drinking water,  etc. The only Government hospital around the Boloutoru where our sick parents who cannot afford the expensive private clinics had been abandoned to decay. No road, no light, no skill acquisition centre for our teaming youths whom they said the leaders of tomorrow.


Delta State Government should look into Ojobo community and other riverine communities passing through the same fate with us. SHELL on it part with its divide and rule game had continued to keep the community in total darkness. We told them to give us gas turbine light and they agreed to connect us to our oil flow station but till today no way. Government should prevail on SHELL to as a matter of urgency connect the community to the BENISEIDE OIL FLOW STATION for constant light.