In Progress

I am Ayibakuro Warder, a mother of five children. I am a native of Ikarama, an Ijaw community within the Okordia clan, in the Yenagoa Local Government of Bayelsa State here in the Niger Delta region. While I am employed in the local government, I remain engaged in fishing and farming to support my family. But much of my time is devoted as a leader of Ikarama’s women as well the whole Okordia clan. There were times when I sat with the chiefs of the clan to settle land disputes which sometimes included the oil companies, whose activities we, women have consistently oppposed.