Casualties as Ebonyi communities fight over motor park dues
Two communities in Ebonyi, Effium and Ezza-Effium, are embroiled in intercommunal violence that has claimed many lives and left properties worth millions of naira destroyed.
The fight which began on May 4 was over the collection of motor park toll.
The imbroglio also turned a once-ebullient Effium community in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi into a ghost town with several persons displaced.
Police in Ebonyi on Sunday warned the feuding communities to sheath their swords or face the wrath of the law.
Police spokesman Onome Onovwakpoyeya said officers were attacked during the melee but the “police repelled the attacks but in the ensuing gun duel, the colonial building used as a police station was razed.”
“There was, however, no casualty on the part of the police or loss of arms and ammunition,” he added. “Normalcy has returned to the area.”
State Commissioner of Police, Faleye Olaleye, decried the violence while assuring that the police would continue to protect lives and properties in the affected area.
(NAN)
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