Two persons have reportedly been killed in the renewed communal clash between the people of Umuobor-Akaeze, and their Ogwor neighbours in the Ishiagu community both in the Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Southeast Nigeria.
The communal clashes in the area have claimed many lives, including men, women, and passersby.
According to community sources, a man and a woman were killed on Monday by suspected assailants who laid ambush in the disputed land.
PUNCH Metro reports that two neighbouring communities have been at war for about five decades over a vast fertile land known as Elueke, with many lives lost and properties worth billions of naira destroyed.
The situation forced Governor Francis Nwifuru to declare the disputed land a buffer zone and set up a committee to solve the crisis.
Commenting on the crisis, a social media critic, Mr. Nwoba Chika Nwoba, told PUNCH Metro on Tuesday that he had written to the governor to urgently end the conflict.
“I had written twice earlier that the governor, Francis Nwifuru, should do something urgently to bring this to a halt, but I’m not sure he has done anything obvious to end the feud.
“I’m still calling on the governor to do something to end this lest it becomes too difficult to handle.
“Every life matters, stakeholders of these two towns should join hands and get this unnecessary bloodshed quenched.”
When our correspondent contacted the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Joshua Ukandu, on Tuesday, he said he had yet to receive a report of the recent killings in the area.
Source: Punch News
