Many houses were burnt while properties worth millions of naira were destroyed in Amuzu Igbeagu community in Izzi Local Government Area over a disagreement arising from leadership and land tussle in the area.
Though details of what happened were still sketchy at the time of this report, one of the victims, Jacinta Onyiyechi, said all her certificates and other vital documents were destroyed when miscreants hired by one of the factions set her father’s house ablaze.
“They wanted to remain in power and use their power to force the community to hand over the land to them and their preferred mining company. This led to a court case which lingered till March this year when the court gave judgement against them and ordered them to hand over to a newly elected leadership but they still refused to hand over,” the source said
The source noted that having lost the leadership of the village, the group resorted to inviting gunmen ”to attack and intimidate the villagers”.“They hired gunmen who are at the border with Cross River State to attack us and burn down our houses,” the source said. “The community complained to the commissioner for border peace and internal security who called for a meeting and sent police there. But yesterday night after the police left, they came back and burnt down many houses and properties.”
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