About three persons are feared dead in a recurrent inter
communal strife between the people of Adadama and Igbo Amabana, in Abi
local government area, a council in the central part of Cross River
State, following two days of gun battles and machetes.
The outbreak of hostilities between the two neighbouring communities
as revealed by eye witnesses, started as the two communities sought to
show supremacy over one another following a long standing dispute over
the ownership of a parcel of farm land which is located at the border of
the two communities.
An eye witness in Calabar gathered that lifeless bodies
were still lying at Adadama along the Ugep – Abomege Road which leads to
Ebonyi State.
The conflict which is a reoccurring feature of frosty relationships
between the neighbouring communities during this time of the year when
farming commences, has been described as one too many.
The villages of Adadama and Igbo Amabana, Igbo Ekureku and Afagara
have become ghost towns as the villagers have fled for fear of arrest as
anti-riot policemen have arrived at the warring communities to restore
peace.
Speaking to Journalists, the Police Public Relations Officer for the
Cross River State Police Command, DSP John Umoh, said a team of
anti-mobile policemen have been dispatched to the warring area stressing
that normalcy has since been restored while the police still patrol the
two communities.
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