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Africcon Report:Bayelsa relocates Boro’s remains to Heroes Park
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The Bayelsa State Government has concluded plans to relocate the remains of the hero of the Niger Delta struggle and symbol of Ijaw nation’s agitation for self determination, the late Isaac Adaka Boro, to the Heroes’ Park, Yenagoa.
Our correspondent gathered that the remains would be interred at the park on May 16 as part of the activities marking the 2013 edition of the Boro Day celebration in the state.
It was gathered that the government had last month exhumed the remains of Boro buried 45 years ago at the Ikoyi Cemetary, Lagos State.
The bones of the late Boro were said to have been sent to the United Kingdom for a DNA test after they were exhumed from the cemetery.
Confirming the development, the state Commissioner for Ijaw Culture and National Affairs, Mr. Felix Tuodolo, said the late Boro’s re-interment would mark the 2013 edition of the annual celebration.
He said the road leading to a town built in honour of the late Ijaw hero in Kaiama, Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area of the state, would also be inaugurated to mark the anniversary.
He said the government would lay a foundation stone for the proposed Isaac Boro Mausoleum, describing the year’s edition of the celebration as eventful.
He said a former USA presidential candidate and civil rights leader, Rev. Jesse Jackson, was expected in the state to deliver a lecture.
According to him, the colloquium entitled, “Oil and peace: Compatibility for sustainable growth in Nigeria,” would mark the end of the celebration on May 17.
He said the event, which was designed to showcase the rich Ijaw cultural heritage, would feature the performance of an Isaac Boro play written by Simon Ambakaderemo.
He named Alhaji Maitama Sule as the colloquium’s Special Guest of Honour, adding that other discussants were the Founder of the Oodua People’s Congress, Dr. Fredrick Fasehun; King Alfred Diete-Spiff and Chief Samuel Owonaru.
“The event will be attended by frontline Ijaw leaders, including Chief Edwin Clark,” he said.
