Renowned comedian Francis Agoda, popularly known as I Go Dye, has urged the Delta State Government and the federal government of Nigeria to establish a panel of inquiry to investigate the tragic incident in Okuama community, which resulted in the deaths of 16 soldiers and numerous innocent villagers.

In a message sent to VANGUARD on Wednesday, the entertainer stressed that “the good people of Okuama community  should help security operatives with useful information to  fish out the perpetrators of the barbaric act and prevent innocent victims from being victims”.

I Go Dye noted that for the past few days following the incident in Okuama community, Ughelli, Delta State, they have remained in shock and couldn’t fathom what happened.

He writes, ” It is an irrefutable tragedy, they were serving their father’s land to maintain peace and security. I or anyone would have been on that mission unarmed just to restore peace in that region like our departed heroes.  The loss of these soldiers is not just an irreparable loss but a blow to their families, our armed forces and also to the entire nation!

” The world is built on our shoulders, only peace and love can sustain our existence. A soldier that lost his life in the cause of fighting terrorism or promoting peace is someone’s child and a family member.

” As a global diplomat for peace advocate ,I condemn the action in  its entirety as it is in deviance to the traditional peace that has resumed in the Niger Delta region. I call on the state government to immediately wade in and set up a panel of enquiry into this ugly incidence and also the good people of Okuama community to help security operatives with useful information that will be of help before the situation gets out of control; so that innocent citizens do not become victims of an act perpetrated by a few scoundrels.

The killings of these officers does not portray the good people of Delta as true Deltans that we are. The perpetrators of this dastardly and inhumane act must be brought to book and justice must prevail.”