Security beefed up to check renewed Ebonyi/Cross River boundary dispute


No fewer than three persons were reported missing while 500 others have been displaced in a renewed boundary dispute between the people of Ochienyim, Ndiagu Amagu in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State and Ada­dama community in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State.
The community leader of Ochienyim Ndiagu Amagu, Peter Azuegu, stated this yesterday when Ebonyi State Deputy Governor, Dr. Kelechi Igwe, visited the area to ascertain the level of destruction in the renewed violence.
He accused the people of Adadama of secretly kill­ing the people of Amagu through ambush.
Azuegu alleged that indi­genes of the area, including Sunday Ujebe, Nte Anyigor Omar and Christopher Ogo­do, were shot dead and their corpses missing when the community was invaded on June 4 2015. He added that scores injured, as a result of the attack, were receiving treatment in various hospi­tals.
He lamented that their economic trees and other valuables had been de­stroyed due to the protracted crisis while school chil­dren had been forced out of schools in the area following insecurity and lack of funds to cater for them.
The deputy governor commended the people for not taking laws into their hands as a result of the attack and called on the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to come to the aid of the people.
Assuring the people to re­main calm, he said security had been beefed up in the area to check further attack on the community.

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