We can reliably confirm as night fell, late Saturday evening that casualties have been recorded in the renewed communal conflict between the Ediba and Usumutong communities in Abi Local Government Area, Cross River State. Our correspondent on the ground in the area reported via text message that, “…two Usumutong men have been captured and taken…
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Sources on the ground in Abi Local Government Area, Cross River Central, have just informed www.calitown.com that the intractable communal conflict between Ediba and Usumutong communities has erupted again, Saturday afternoon. It was further revealed that the early morning attack on a commercial motorcyclist of Ediba extraction by unknown gunmen, suspected to be from Usumutong,…
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The Cross River State Government, CRSG, will henceforth adopt very stringent measures to stem further degeneration of peace at the age long land dispute between Usumutong and Ediba communities of Bahumono Clan, Abi Local Government Area. Deputy Governor, Ivara Esu, made government’s position known at a meeting with chiefs, clan heads and leaders of thought…
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By Our Correspondent While Cross Riverians prepare for the long Christmas holiday, www.calitown.com sources on the ground say what apears to have been a lull in hostilities between the Usumutong and Ediba communities in Abi Local Government Area, was broken this past Monday as a group of persons suspected to be from Usumutong staged a…
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Chief Medical Director of the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Calabar, Joseph Okegbe, is unhappy that the Usumutong and Ediba communities have thrown away age long relationships and commonalities, opting instead for hostilities that have resulted in the recent loss of lives over a piece of land he describes as “not fertile, (and one) that has been…
Early this morning, calitown.com sources revealed that after a night where youths and men in both Usumutong and Ediba kept vigil, protecting their respective communities against any form of attack as the communal clash between the communities take on days, most families have begun evacuating children and the elderly to surrounding communities. A source insisted…
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