The Council Chairman of Ebonyi local government area and the Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to the governor on the street light, Prince Chinedu Uburu and Chinedu Awo has narrated how security operatives were mobilized to avert another communal clash between Isophumini village, Mbeke-Ishieke in Ebonyi LGA. and Ezza-Effium Community. In their separate reactions, Uburu who
spoke to newsmen in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, said he received a distress call about an outbreak of crisis between Ezza and Ebonyi people at Nwori Isophumini Market square, Mbeke-Ishieke, and quickly mobilized security operatives who brought the situation under control.
He said the remote cause of the crisis has been traced to the activities of two groups of persons who exist in the market area; the members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW and the security committee of Isophumini Village which demanded some money from a driver, a member of NURTW. 'A lorry conveying goods covered with tarpaulin was stopped for a search and the driver who claimed that he was conveying timber resisted the search.
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