The Okugbe Primary School, Ikpide-irri in the Isoko South local government area of Delta State has only one teacher teaching over 170 pupils.
Aside from this, residents of the community traveled to Kaiama in Bayelsa State Bayelsa State for medical attention.
Ikpide-irri is an agrarian community, which specializes in the production of farm produce such as yams, plantains, peppers, and cassava to guarantee food security in the state.
A group in the community under the auspices of Concerned Indigenes of Ikpide-Irri Development (CIID) had expressed frustration over the negligence of the area during a courtesy visit to the chairman of Isoko South local government council, Comrade Friday Warri, and appealed to him to extend dividends of democracy to their community.
Comrade Obruozie Odiuzou who presented a speech on behalf of CIID, alongside former-president general of Ikpide-irri Progress Union and leader of the delegation, Chief Joseph Ubeleke, CIID had complained about the lack of teachers in the primary school, and non-functional health care centres, solar street lights, water, and markets, among other amenities.
He noted that the Ikpide-Irri riverine community is one of the largest communities of the Irri clan/kingdom that lacks social amenities from the three tiers of government.
Responding, the council chairman, Comrade Friday Warri pledged to do something about the plight of the community.
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