Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora (AESID) has charged the Inspector General of Police and the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS) to end political violence and killings in Asaga Owutu Edda in Afikpo South LGA. Governor David Umahi made a similar call a few days ago. On Monday, Ebonyi State
of Chairman of Afikpo North LG, Eni Uduma and the lawmaker representing Afikpo South East Constituency, Chidi Agemu, over alleged involvement in cult clashes.
Oluchukwu lamented the denigration of Edda politics to criminality, recalling that it dated back to 2007 when some people of questionable character entered into Edda/Ebonyi political horizon. On the recent killings, AESID said: “On the 27th March, 2020, a 19-year-old boy, Chidi Oji Arua, was killed at Nguzu Edda. It was alleged that some officials of the Afikpo South LG Task Force went to Nguzu to enforce the policy banning burial of corpses as part of the COVID-19 lockdown.
“From Sunday, 3rd May, 2020 to Wednesday, 6th May, 2020, three young men from Owutu Edda were murdered in cold blood. The first boy, Onu Chima Ukpai, was shot dead by an alleged member of a rival cult group.
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