Ebonyi gov, Nwifuru moves to demarcate Ezza/ Effium war-torn community, Thursday 

By Uchenna Okeh, Abakaliki 

The governor of Ebonyi State, Francis Nwifuru has vowed to demarcate the Ezza/ Effium war-torn community on Thursday, as away to end the massive blood letting in the area which has lasted five years.

Nwifuru made this known yesterday at the government House chapel, centenary city, Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi State.

The governor said implementation of the government’s white paper on the crisis would commence on Thursday this week.

He disclosed that he will sign a  bill for the creation of autonomous communities in Effium on that day and also  be in the area to flag off  construction of the road that was created to demarcate the warring clans as part of efforts to end the crisis.

Nwifuru who revealed that the first autonomous community to be occupied by the people of Ezza in that area shall be called Alioma,  threatened to deal decisively with anybody or group of persons who may attempt to truncate the peace building process.

He noted that he was not siding any clan in the crisis but hold that Ezza-Effium people have rights to live in Effium the land of their forefathers.

According to him: “We will assent to the bill and flagg off the demarcation of the land on Thursday this week. By 10:am, we will assent to the bill into law,  by 1pm we will be at Effium to flag off the construction of the road. We will also create more communities for the two clans.

“We have agreed that Ezzas that are living in Effium, have every full rights to live there because they can never be a visitor in their fathers land and that is what we agreed. 

*We also agreed that they are entitled to have their own community with their own traditional ruler like other clan have”, he stressed