Abia govt to re-gazzete autonomous communities to tackle communal crises

Abia State Government says it would reappraisal and re-gazzete autonomous communities crossed the authorities to reconstruct bid and tranquillity, saying that the erstwhile reappraisal was carried retired eleven years ago.

Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Uzor Nwachukwu disclosed this connected Saturday successful Umuahia, during his gathering with Presidents-General of towns and improvement unions crossed Abia State,

He said that uncovering by the Abia State authorities showed that determination are situations wherever 1 colony was wrongly gazetted into 2 autonomous communities successful the past, thereby causing disorder and crises.

Nwachukwu raised the alarm that his bureau present receives 50 petitions each week from antithetic villages, explaining that specified agitations made the Abia State authorities to found struggle absorption and mediation centres crossed each section authorities areas.

“You volition find instances wherever 1 colony is successful 1 assemblage but definite kindreds and families are successful different community. Those are confusions.

“There are situations wherever a accepted ruler, successful his domain, who is simply a custodian of an autonomous community, has his colony ceeded to different accepted ruler.

“So helium has go a taxable of that Traditional Ruler. Are you alert of those things? Those are...