The leaders of Effium Community in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State has rejected the creation of two autonomous communities, 'Alioma and Ezekuna' for Ezza living in Effium Community.
In a statement made available to our reporter by Dr. James Agena,
President General, Effium Community Town Union, said that the ceding of their ancestoral land to strangers is unacceptable and vowed that his people will employ every legal means to resist it.
His statement reads in full;
"Yesterday, the governor of Ebonyi State, Rt. Hon. Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru came to Effium and made a pronouncement that part of Effium land has been ceded to strangers. His coming yesterday to Effium was not welcomed. We did not welcome him to the event, that is why we boycotted his visit to our land. His decision was not welcomed.
"Therefore, we are going to employ every legal means to resist it. We are going to stop him from executing the decision and his order. We are going to resist it with all our effort and might.
"It is never heard anywhere in any part of the world where the land that belongs to the indigenes will be forcefully taken from them and given to strangers that lived in that land.
"So, it is uncalled for. Except he is forcefully taken the land that was given to us by God, that was left for us by our ancestors to the strangers. What he did today was evidently clear that he is using his power to collect what belongs to us and that we are going to resist with every sense of it. We are going to resist it to the later. There is a saying that he who goes to equity must come with clean hands.
"If he is going to mediate in this crisis, he must come with clean hands. He should be fair and just. But his decision is unfair, unjust and there is nothing like equity in his action. For that reason, we are going to resist it. We the Effium people will not allow it to stand.
"We are calling on the international community to come to our aid because the governor is using his power to collect from us what was given to us by God and Effium people will never allow it. We want the governor to get this message. It is never done anywhere. We want the governor to hear it. Effium people will never allow it to stand.
'He should go back to the drawing board and reconsider his decision. We are equally calling on the elders of Izzi to call their son to order to reconsider his decision on this matter. It is uncalled for and it can never bring peace in Effium land. It will rather aggravate the crisis.
"This is not how to make peace. This is bringing more flames into the buring fire. We have also continued to reiterate that anything short from the implementation of the recommendation of the peace committee headed by the Emiritus Bishop Okoro is totally not acceptable to the people of Effium. We can never accept the report of the committtee chaired by Franklyn Ogbuewu who is an inlaw to the Ezza people, hence, he is an interest party in the crisis in Effium. He is biased, unfair and unjust in his decisions".
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