Blood flow as Ebonyi, Cross River communities go to war

KAY July 16, 2017 0

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at least nine persons including a pregnant woman have been reported killed as Ofioji, Izzi  local government area of Ebonyi and their Ijutun-Idoru of Obubura council area of Cross River State renewed hostilities over boundary disputes.

Though information was still sketchy as at the time of this report, it was gathered that the people of Ijutun-Odoru in Cross River allegedly invaded Ofioji Izzi community at the wee hours of Friday, shooting sporadically and kiling about nine persons and burnt over 56 houses.

Addressing journalists yesterday at their hideout where they were taking refuge, the head of  Ofioji, community, Chief Nwobegu Mbam painted a gory picture of how they were slaughtered by the Cross River militia whom he described as callous and called on the state and federal governments to come to their aid before they are completely wiped out.

Mbam further said that during the attack, a pregnant woman he identified as Ukamaka Nwifuru allegedly lost her life while houses belonging to natives of the community were razed to dust by the rampaging fighters.

"it was very late on Friday night,  we had all gone to bed but suddenly a very terrifying sound was heard in our community and in the ensuing confusion, we ran out only to see many houses on fire and that was when we knew that the people of Cross River have invaded us again. They were shooting our people without mercy; they burnt our houses and Carted away our property”

Meanwhile over 58 lives have been lost while more than 1000 houses have been reportedly burnt since the crisis erupted.

When contacted, the Chief Press Secretary to the Ebonyi State Governor, Emmanuel Uzor described the incident as barbaric and called on the law enforcement agencies to investigate the level of involvement of a former minority leader in the Cross River State House of Assembly, one Alex Irek who had allegedly been earlier indicted by
a white paper on the origin of the intractable crisis in the two communities.

Uzor who said it was height of idiocy to link Ebonyi State governor to the crisis called for the arrest of the former lawmaker for allegedly arming his constituents to go into war with their neighbouring Ebonyi community.

“The Governor made a passionate appeal to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai over the spate of killing of the people of Ebonyi state by their Cross River counterparts. He made the supplication which was well coded by the Chief of Army Staff and what we heard again was this provocative carnage and wanton killing of our people by the Cross River people and a former lawmaker could descend so low to say that the crisis came as a result of Governor Umahi’s appeal for help and deployment of more soldiers” SHARE THIS NEWS

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