Ebonyi Ezza/Effium Crisis: One Beheaded, Other Body Parts Severed
Ebonyi Ezza/Effium Crisis: One Beheaded, Other Body Parts Severed
One Mr Godwin Odah has been reportedly beheaded and other parts of his body severed in Akparata village in Effium autonomous community in Ohaukwu local government area of Ebonyi State by suspected warriors in the bush of the war-torn area.
This is coming barely one week, Governor of Ebonyi State granted amnesty to over 150 detained people fingered to have had hands in the crisis which erupted in 2021.
It was reported that Mr. Odah was killed at the back of his compound plucking fruit when the suspected warriors attacked, cut off his head and severed other parts of his body and went away with them.
The President-General of Effium Town Union, Dr. James Agena who confirmed the killing described the killing as callous, brutal and inhuman coming at a time government is doing everything to restore lasting peace in the area.
He said that he had reported the matter to the security agencies, Chairman and Secretary of the Peace and Implementation Committee inaugurated by the State Government to wade into the matter to bring a lasting solution to the war.
“”We are pained and devasted over the recent attack and killing of a poor farmer who was gruesomely murdered at his back yard while plucking fruits. He was shot from the tree after which the suspected warriors from the other extraction of Effium severed his head, hand, leg and went a way with them leaving the body.
“This is disheartening despite government efforts to restore peace in Effium. We strongly demand that the perpetrators of this dastardly act be arrested promptly to face justice.
“We have reported the matter to the security agencies in the state, some top government officials, Chairman of the Peace and Implementation Committee Chief Amb. Frank Ogbuewu and Secretary Sen. Sonny Ogboji and other stakeholders. Some Ezza -Effium people truncating the peace process again and the government should immediately work to stop further killings.
“I have called our people to remain calm and should not go for reprisal attack to take law into their hands but to wait for the government and security agents’ action. We should sustain the peace already established by the governor” Agenda stated.
When contacted the State Police Public Relations Officer PPRO DSP Joshua Ukandu on the incident he said that the matter has not gotten to the police desk.
