A Harvest from Betrayals

It was a welcome sight as Exploit Oil, an oil prospecting company, came to Olobiri, an oil-rich community. Good jobs, good roads, and other amenities were promised by the oil companies and the government, until there was an oil spillage, destroying agricultural and aquatic life in the host communities and other villages. The general manager and chief, Peredou, colluded to buy the youth over when they saw that they were having opposition from an antienvironmental body, PFAEP. Enough money had been given to the greedy chief, who saw his continuous stay in office as a means of getting more money and his removal as exposing his shady deals. As a result, he recruited a militia, equipping them with sophisticated weapons, money, and charms and used them to reinstall himself and also to rig elections to install his friend Chief Inemo as a local government chairman.

When they had been sworn in, Chief Inemo and Chief Peredou did not want to fulfill their preelection promises to the youth and looked for a way of eliminating them.