The leadership of Kunukunuma Federated Community has asserted that the communities of Tekedor Kusimi and Apalagbene fishing camps at Egwa II and Odidi oil fields both belong to the people of Kunukunuma Federated Community / Kantu Community of Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta state, and not to the people of Ogbe-Ijoh Warri Kingdom.

The clarifications were made in an official statement released and signed respectively by the chairman and secretary of Kunukunuma Federated Community, Capt. Friday Denkeden and Pastor (Dr.) Abraham Tebiano, on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.

According to the leadership, the issued statement titled 'RE: A Notice To Discountenance And Disregard The False And Baseless Claims Of Tekedor Kusimi And Apalagbene Communities To Ownership Of Egwa II Oil Field And Apalagbene Odidi Field, Kusimi Respectively In Gbaramatu Kingdom' was to correct the wrong narrative being peddled in the media space as earlier published in the Vanguard Newspaper.

Part of the statement reads: "Our attention has been drawn to publications styled 1. RE: NOTICE TO DISREGARD / DISCOUNTENANCE KANTU COMMUNITY OF GBARAMATU KINGDOM (Vanguard Publication Dated Thursday May 22, 2025 at Page 20), and, 2. RE: SETTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT TO CORRECT THE FALSEHOOD (in the publication of Thursday May 22, 2025 at Page 20 of The Vanguard Newspaper) by Kantu Community of Gbaramatu Kingdom.

"We hereby state emphatically that the self-acclaimed communities of Tekedor Kusimi and Apalagbene are non-existent anywhere, as far as we know. We do have, as a matter of fact, Tekedor Kusimi and Apalagbene fishing camps at Egwa II Oil field and Odidi field which belong to and are both located in Kunukunuma Federated Community/Kantu Community of Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta state," the leadership of Kunukunuma clarified.

Giving more clarification, they said, "The parcels of lands where the above-mentioned fishing camps are located belong to the Kunukunuma Federated Community/Kantu Community.

"We state categorically, that Tekedor Kusimi fishing camp is not part of Ogbe-Ijoh Warri Kingdom in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta state. Tekedor Kusimi fishing camp is in Kunukunuma Federated Community / Kantu Community in Gbaramatu Kingdom of Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State."

According to them, those presently occupying the settlement are not its owners, and that the people of Kantu community are bonafide owners on the basis that they are descendants of Kunukunuma.

"Thus, the inhabitants of Tekedor Kusimi and Apalagbene fishing camps who are presently in occupation of portions of the above-mentioned area do not have any proprietary interest in Apalagbene fishing camp but are in occupation of portions of same at the pleasure of the indigenes of Kunukunuma Federated Community/Kantu Community.

"We therefore hereby affirm that indigenes of Kantu Community, being descendants of Kunukunuma are bona-fide owners who are entitled to continue to exercise exclusive rights of possession and ownership over all that piece / parcel of land encompassing Egwa II Oil field and Odidi field, Kusimi and beyond in Kunukunuma Federated Community / Kantu Community of Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State."

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