• Call for Nwifuru’s intervention
Leaders of Effium Indigenes of Ezza-Ezekuna Extraction of Ohaukwu Local Council of Ebonyi State have raised the alarm over attempts by powerful land speculators to dispossess them of their ancestral land.
They have, therefore, cried out to Governor Francis Nwifuru over the disturbing development.
It would be recalled that penultimate week, a peace pact was entered into by warring communities in Ohaukwu Local Council over the protracted dispute between Effium and Ezza Effium communities.
But, renouncing the development, the Ezza-Ezekuna leaders alleged that influential members within the implementation committee, set up by the government, who are working in cohorts with land grabbers, beguiled some of their representatives to sign a dubious document veiled as a peace pact.
They said: “We have already sent a letter of protest to Governor Nwifuru, notifying him that the purported endorsement of the peace pact was procured under duress and lacking in voluntary consent or real volition.”
The leaders, including Justice Anselm A. Nwigwe, Prophet Freeman Nwonu, Elechi Benedict, Vitalis Igboke, Utobo Onele Joseph, among others, said the protest letter to the governor became necessary to put the records straight.
In the letter, which was made available to newsmen in Abuja, yesterday, the Ezekuna leaders assured the governor of their commitment to restore peace to the Effium Community.
