Ayeke-Eñweli Communal Clashes: Kogi deputy Speaker calls for peace

By Friday Idachaba, Lokoja

DEPUTY Speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Comfort Nwuchiola Egwaba has condemned the recent eruption of communal unrests and violent attacks between Ayeke and Eñweli Communities in Akpanyo ward of Ibaji Local Government Area of Kogi State.

The Deputy Speaker, in her separate addresses at the palaces of the Community Heads, chiefs of Ayeke and Eñweli, condemned the action taken by the youths of both waring communities.

She asked all parties to sheath their swords and explore peaceful means of solving the issues between them saying that taking up arms against each other as brothers was unheard off, shocking, mindless and abominable.

Nwuchiola Egwaba further declared Governments readiness to quell every form of insecurity and threat to peaceful co-existence and progress of all communities in Ibaji and all communities in the State by extension.

The Deputy Speaker assured both communities of the government’s preparedness to restore lasting peace, as no development can take place in an atmosphere of rancour and animosity.

She pleaded with the people of Ayeke and Eñweli to observe the curfew imposed on them due to the crisis as she prayed to God Almighty to allow peace to reign in Ibaji Local Government Area.

The Deputy Speaker also charged security agencies not to spare the rod in their rapid response to the crisis urging them to track the perpetrators down and bring them to justice.

Nwuchiola said recalled that Ayeke and Eñweli communities in Ibaji Local Government have over the years engaged in communal clashes over ownership of land but pledged that this time around, it would be resolved once and for all. (Ends)