Houses are believed to have been burnt, several persons injured while seven persons, at the last count, have lost their lives in the renewed communal clash between Ediba and Usumutong communities in Abi Local Government Area, www.calitown.com can report. Hard pressed local sources in the area were unable, at press time, to ascertain the distribution…
Far removed from Calabar, the Cross River State capital, the Usumutong and Ediba communities in Abi LGA are engaged in a communal clash with very dire consequences for both communities. In Ediba over the weekend, www.calitown.com caught up with one Jenny Innocent Isaac whose husband went missing more than two weeks ago in very painful…
20-year-old Destiny Arukwu of Enusukwe, Ediba in Abi LGA has exclusively told www.calitown.com how he escaped death in the hands of persons he suspects to be from neighbouring Usumutong also in Abi LGA, in circumstances not unrelated with the tension that has been building between both communities. Arukwu said on the fateful Sunday, September 7th,…
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While consistent efforts on the part of government and well meaning indigenes of Cross River State have been invested in ensuring that the intractable differences between the Bahumono communities of Usumutong and Ediba in Abi LGA do not give birth to a full blown communal clash, www.calitown.com can reveal that unless something is urgently done…
The communal clash between Usumutong and Ediba communities in Abi Local Government Area, CRS, may have taken another bad turn with sources on the ground informing www.calitown.com about the possible engagement and involvement of mercenaries from neighbouring Yakurr. This information may be justified after it emerged that the mercenaries tactfully staged a mid-morning attack on…