Ebonyi boundary clash: Four beheaded, others injured, property destroyed in renewed clash

Ebonyi gov, Nwifuru

No few than four persons have been killed in Okporojo-Oso Edda in Edda Local Government Area in a renewed boundary crisis between the community and neighboring Amasiri community in Afikpo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. It was gethered that two dead bodies recovered while two persons were still missing. Some people were injured while several houses were also razed by the assailants in the attack which took place last night. The two communities have been at war since decades over farm land with many lives lost and property worth billions destroyed.

Efforts have been made by previous administrations in the State and the present government to end the war to no avail.

But, in the recent attack, sources in the area alleged that the assailants came from the Amasiri axis.
A video recording of the aftermath of the attack showing the bodies of the dead victims without their heads lying in the pool of their blood have since gone viral on social media.

Also many houses set ablaze by the assailants were still burning in the video trending.

Community sources alleged that the heads of the victims were taken away while two persons remain missing.
Ebonyi Commissioner for Internal Security, Etta Uka Ude, confirmed the incident in an interview in Abakaliki, the State capital on Friday.

He said he received reports of the killings by the evening of the incident, describing the act as “barbaric, unlawful and totally unacceptable.”

According to the commissioner, the location where the killings occurred is not even the exact area under land dispute, making the attack more disturbing.

“By 5 p.m. yesterday, I was informed that some hoodlums went into one of the villages and massacred almost four persons to death. I was trying to understand the actual problem because the land dispute area is far away from the town,” he said. Ude explained that upon receiving the report, the State Government moved swiftly to prevent escalation.He said he immediately contacted the chairmen of the affected local government areas, the Commissioner of Police, the Deputy Governor, and the Army, including the Women Battalion Commander, who had just resumed duty.