Ezinano and Umuzuocha communities both in Awka South Local Government Area on Saturday clashed over a protracted land tussle. Both communities have been at loggerheads over a piece of land, which both communities were laying claims to.
Hundreds of indigenes of Ezinano community, including their leaders, women and youths had stormed the land at the weekend, when heavily armed men of the Special Anti Robbery Squad of the state police command ordered them out on the prompting of Umuzuocha community. The fracas was however arrested through the intervention of Anambra State Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam.
Gloria Chiama, a farmer, called on the relevant authorities to call the police to order as 'police do not meddle in matters of land dispute between communities and individuals rather maintain law and order.
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