The lingering communal crisis that has bedeviled the Owerre Ezukala and Ogbunka communities in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State, on Friday, took a dangerous dimension when two persons were killed and about 11 houses burnt.
Briefing newsmen on the incident, the caretaker committee chairman of the Owerre Ezekala Improvement Union, Mr. Alphonsus Ikegwu, lamented that the people of the community have been living in fear occasioned by continuous invasion of the community by hoodlums from Egbunka who have intimidated, harassed and raped their women, adding that all efforts to bring the attention of government to the predicament of the people was yet to yield any result.
According to him, the two communities, which share ancestral ties, have been on warpath for more than three decades over boundary adjustments with Egbunka laying claim to the sole ownership of a stone quarry site located between the two communities.
Ikegwu, who disclosed that most indigenes of Owerre Ezukala could no longer visit their village for fear of being kidnapped or killed as the only road to the village is through Egbunka village, maintained that their plea was for government to mobilise security personnel to maintain law and order and ensure security of lives and property. He added that they are law-abiding and cannot take up arms in self-defense.
The visibly shaken community leader insisted that government has not done enough to restore peace and order in the crisis-torn communities, stressing that all pleas and letters to Anambra State governor, the state Commissioner of Police and other relevant authorities had not been given the seriousness it deserved.
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