Complete Chapter 5 Of Scrimmage In Ijaw Nation by Isaac Elagha (Novel)

Pere-ere ached to hear from Boro, just to be assured that he is fine and nothing else, she told Iniye.
   He will fine, Iniye assured her.
     They both felt so when another news headline read thus; IJU was telling the Government that the three weeks Ultimatum had expired and it was time to take action being signed by Boro, After some minutes another news surfaced online that the Minister of Urban and Rural Development of Akuba has kidnapped.
The next day, thousands of soldiers were deployed in to the coastal part of Akuba in search of the Minister tha. t was kidnapped in which IJU was claimed responsible for the act. The people of Kaima were brutalized by the troops for hiding their son. Unfortunately the Soldiers didn't see the Minister, on their went back mission to the Federal Capital Territory of Akuba, alo
ng the water way, almost twenty thousand soldiers were guned down by the IJU group. This came as a shock to the Federal Government but he didn't listened to their humble request, the next day, other group of soldiers and Police officers were sent back to Kaima village but to their Greatest Surprise, they saw only Animals in the Villages and the houses, all the people of Kaima ran away for survival , the Soldiers destroyed all the houses in the Village, killed the Animals suddenly a man from Aguobiri Village surfaced to Kaima in the process when the Soldiers were destroying the land.
     The man took a news man who followed the Soldiers to Kaima, he took him to the water bank and showed him how they are suffering from the Oil Spillage without adequate Development. The news reporter condemned both the Federal Government and the Ijaw Justice Union (IJU) for the violence act in the region and also called on the Federal Government to develop ijaw nation.
    Several Militants sprang up in the ijaw nation region of Akuba and vowed that no soldier or Policemen who set foot on their Riverine villages would return alive. All the Soldiers that set Kaima ablaze were killed in the went back mission.
         Some days later after the Soldiers were killed by IJU, the Government was not complying, A car bomb explosion killed over thirty thousand Soldiers and Civilians in the Bendel region of Akuba. The elders of Ijaw nation in a press statement advised the Federal government to abide with peace abs fulfill their demands before the holocaust  consumed the whole country.
   Days later after the federal government agreed to released the arrested students during the Protest, IJU made Hon.Birakumor the Minister of Urban and Rural Development to say down with Okoko Waya, of which he did and they released him to his family, after his release from IJU, held  a press conference abf reaffirm that, all what he said during his missing period were under coercion and shouldn't be considered serious.
      The Federal government in his part, directed all universities to reopen and there should be no increase in the school fees again & also released the students that were arrested. One evening, Hon.Birakumor body was found dead along the street beside the Government house and a written was on his body, LIARS MUST GO TO HELL. not a few media houses called the act an unimaginable evil.
   On  a rainy night, IJU took seventy foreigners from their beds in the housing estate of a foreign oil company in the Ijaw nation and took them to the creek and summoned a message to the federal government to cooperate with them so that the hostages will be released unscathed.
        The families and home countries of the hostages appealed to the Akuba president not to use force but cooperate with them and at the same time they also appealed to IJU to honour their words, IJU said they will not kill them if the Government will cooperate, the government of Akuba have teleconference negotiation with IJU and appealed to them to release the hostages and IJU kept their and released the foreigners.
   Despite the fact that, the IJU had released the hostages  with unscathed, the federal government of Akuba send some troops to the creek to fight them but were all killed by the Militants, some Militants dressed as Fishermen in river bank and was waiting for another troops that was coming, unknown to them the Militants that dressed as Fishermen immediately they sighted the troops, they released a rocket propelled grenades destroying the entire troops, killed them all.
  The people of Akuba watched the sorrows of the deeply affected families of the troops on TV.
      The following day, in a press Conference organized by the Kaza state Government, six traditional rulers on behalf of ijaw nation told the Government that, What Boro and his counterparts are doing in the region is for his own selfish interest and not for the interest of all and that they are not among the deal. They also denied that, Boro is not a true son of Ijaw nation, they appealed to the government not to hold ijaw nation unavoidable link with Boro against it.
   After the press Conference of the rulers in Kaza, they were returning to the region in carefree happiness with briefcases stuffed with money, they apparently  forget that IJU controlled the region. Immediately Boro and his colleagues sighted them, first their briefcases were emptied into the river and were all killed along the sore.
     On Saturday, the landslide  of the west-east Road of ijaw nation coincided with the expiration of IJU three months Ultimatum to the government.many people blamed the federal government for not heeding to IJU demand and that it will lead to war. On Sunday, IJU kidnapped eight foreigners and local workers in the oil sector and gave till Monday to start work on restoring the road for immediate and temporary use.Still the same with so much warning messages sent to FG by several groups went nowhere, FG refused to hear their plead, on Monday IJU directed all the oil producing areas and companies to shut down immediately, they shouldn't resume work until FG agrees with them, that lead the country oil sector to decrease in a 48hrs hours time. The eight oil workers were killed on  that Monday to serve as a warning to the federal government, With another 48 hours the oil production fell by a further.
   With fear, the federal government called on all government officials to leave the ijaw nation region and also the soldiers to leave Kaima and other areas in the region so that the people could go back to their villages and reconstruction of the road should start immediately.
   Pere-ere would think of how to weave the story of this evil into the story of Akuba and Ijaw nation.
   The next day, a former Governor of Kuku State jet was bombed, quite a few people were happy about it.
     Few days later, another group was formed named Unity Ijaw Union(UIU), its aim is to have a head to head negotiations with the government, they dissociated themselves from IJU, the group was lead by Johnson, Boro's friend and Iniye boyfriend.
   Felagha Gesiye, who is the Aspirant vying for President and the flag bearer of PP(Peoples Party) addressed Boro by name and told him that he didn't want to be beholden to any violence group if he won the election and also advised the incumbent President, Mr.Okoroko Waya to dialogue with any Militant group and have a conclusion with them.
   Boro and his colleagues after hearing Felagha Gesiye's words abides in law because he believed that Felagha will make a positive change in ijaw nation.

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