Okporojo bloodshed: Ebonyi govt constitutes 19-member committee on boundary demarcation

Ebonyi State Government has constituted a 19-member committee to transportation retired the demarcation of the disputed bound betwixt Okporojo and Amasiri communities.

Governor Francis Nwifuru announced this soon aft an expanded information assembly gathering held astatine the Old Government House, Abakaliki precocious Thursday night.

The Governor said the demarcation had go expedient since the 2 parties had signed an statement to that effect.

The committee is headed by the State Commissioner for Border bid and struggle Resolution, Professor Paul Nwobashi.

Members see Surveyor General of the State, Commissioner for Lands and survey, Commissioner for superior and Secondary Education, Chairmen of Traditional Rulers Council successful the thirteen Local Government Areas, Dr. Boniface Chima, portion Chief Sunday Oyibe is to service arsenic the Secretary.

According to the Governor, the Council besides resolved that the curfew imposed connected Amasiri assemblage should stay successful unit until the severed heads of the victims of Okporojo killings are recovered.

This was contained successful a connection issued by the governor’s Chief property Secretary, Dr Monday Uzor and made disposable to journalists successful Abakaliki.

The Council besides directed that each the shrines and deities successful Amasiri clan beryllium destroyed and stakeholders of the country are nether ob...