Effium Killings: Umahi Declares Wanted AESID Coordinator, Amb Oluchukwu
By David Uka
Ebonyi State government has declared wanted Ambassador Paschal Oluchukwu, National Co-ordinator Association of Ebonyi State indigenes In Diaspora, AESID for allegedly sponsoring publication that led to the renewed killings in Effium community.
Governor Umahi who announced this while briefing journalists after the State security council meeting in Abakaliki, frowned at the recent resumption of crises in the area.
He said, "We took a briefing on what is happening in Effium, and we discovered that Effium has been at peace for the past two weeks until one ambassador Paschal Oluchukwu, in Sun newspaper of 9th of April, released a very wicked allegation against the security agencies and against the government of Ebonyi state,
"and that resulted in fresh killings and we had the stakeholders of Effium and Ezza Effium in our meeting today and our decision was to arrest all of them and to commence charges on murder, but after again thier firm commitment that they will be no killings again, even though we noted that this is about the 10th time that they are making such promises but we are of the firm believe that they will keep to thier promises this time around ,
"but we have noted that the Effium people and the Ezza Effium people are are willing to return to thier homes and they are willing to embrace peace, but there are still some few elements from amongst the two sides that go to social media to dish out very wrong information and it escalate tension and the resultant effect is killings, we are apealing to security agencies to watch out and apprehend such people.
"And we declare this ambassador Oluchukwu Paschal wanted, and we decided that if he doesn't come to answer, we are to press prosecution charges against him, we've directed the commissioner for internal security and information to write to sun newspaper to reveal the identity of the man, he should come and defend the write up that resulted fresh killings in Effium, we are determined, within the next two weeks to get the people of Effium back to thier homes" he said.
On the issue of herdsmen, Umahi declared that there is no hersdmen in Ebonyi
"we want to place it on record that no herdsman is in Ebonyi state as at now, we didn't ask them to leave, they left on thier own, meaning that they were privy to the attacks on Ebonyi state, I have been talking to the national leadership to please beg them, that what is going on in the various states, no state governor has control of bandits, and because of the killings of defenseless Ebonyi people, they have all left the state, for thier safety they should please not return back now there is still very high tension, under the people who pretentiously speak that they are protecting our people, you can see that our problem is not only the herdsmen, we are still killing ourselves, we are killing police we are burning police station, which means that the Southeast should know that our options problem is not just herdsmen, that we are also problems to our selves and we enjoined leaders to rise up to condemn this because it's a little monster, that if it is encouraged can destroy all of us beyond herdsmen menace"
Meanwhile Governor Umahi has confirmed the killing of two persons in a fresh communal land dispute between Ezillo and Iyonu Communities in Ishielu local government area of the State.
Umahi who experessed worry over the fresh crises however said that normalcy has returned to the area with the intervention of the Catholic Bishop of Abakaliki Diocese, Most Rev Father Michael Okoro.
He said: “there have been differences for over 100 years and the land has been declared a buffer zone. But unfortunately out of greed, one councilor from Ezillo took an expatriate investor to the disputed land and that resulted to shootings and killing where two persons died”.
“The Bishop of Abakaliki Diocese, Most Rev Father Michael Okoro has directed the State leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to Wade into the crisis. And the committee which is entirely made up of CAN has met with leaders of Ezillo and Iyionu Communities and they agreed to abide by all the decisions of the CAN.
According to the Govenor, the Security Council also directed that the Ezillo Councilor should be arrested and prosecuted immediately.
Ebonyi State government has declared wanted Ambassador Paschal Oluchukwu, National Co-ordinator Association of Ebonyi State indigenes In Diaspora, AESID for allegedly sponsoring publication that led to the renewed killings in Effium community.
Governor Umahi who announced this while briefing journalists after the State security council meeting in Abakaliki, frowned at the recent resumption of crises in the area.
He said, "We took a briefing on what is happening in Effium, and we discovered that Effium has been at peace for the past two weeks until one ambassador Paschal Oluchukwu, in Sun newspaper of 9th of April, released a very wicked allegation against the security agencies and against the government of Ebonyi state,
"and that resulted in fresh killings and we had the stakeholders of Effium and Ezza Effium in our meeting today and our decision was to arrest all of them and to commence charges on murder, but after again thier firm commitment that they will be no killings again, even though we noted that this is about the 10th time that they are making such promises but we are of the firm believe that they will keep to thier promises this time around ,
"but we have noted that the Effium people and the Ezza Effium people are are willing to return to thier homes and they are willing to embrace peace, but there are still some few elements from amongst the two sides that go to social media to dish out very wrong information and it escalate tension and the resultant effect is killings, we are apealing to security agencies to watch out and apprehend such people.
"And we declare this ambassador Oluchukwu Paschal wanted, and we decided that if he doesn't come to answer, we are to press prosecution charges against him, we've directed the commissioner for internal security and information to write to sun newspaper to reveal the identity of the man, he should come and defend the write up that resulted fresh killings in Effium, we are determined, within the next two weeks to get the people of Effium back to thier homes" he said.
On the issue of herdsmen, Umahi declared that there is no hersdmen in Ebonyi
"we want to place it on record that no herdsman is in Ebonyi state as at now, we didn't ask them to leave, they left on thier own, meaning that they were privy to the attacks on Ebonyi state, I have been talking to the national leadership to please beg them, that what is going on in the various states, no state governor has control of bandits, and because of the killings of defenseless Ebonyi people, they have all left the state, for thier safety they should please not return back now there is still very high tension, under the people who pretentiously speak that they are protecting our people, you can see that our problem is not only the herdsmen, we are still killing ourselves, we are killing police we are burning police station, which means that the Southeast should know that our options problem is not just herdsmen, that we are also problems to our selves and we enjoined leaders to rise up to condemn this because it's a little monster, that if it is encouraged can destroy all of us beyond herdsmen menace"
Meanwhile Governor Umahi has confirmed the killing of two persons in a fresh communal land dispute between Ezillo and Iyonu Communities in Ishielu local government area of the State.
Umahi who experessed worry over the fresh crises however said that normalcy has returned to the area with the intervention of the Catholic Bishop of Abakaliki Diocese, Most Rev Father Michael Okoro.
He said: “there have been differences for over 100 years and the land has been declared a buffer zone. But unfortunately out of greed, one councilor from Ezillo took an expatriate investor to the disputed land and that resulted to shootings and killing where two persons died”.
“The Bishop of Abakaliki Diocese, Most Rev Father Michael Okoro has directed the State leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to Wade into the crisis. And the committee which is entirely made up of CAN has met with leaders of Ezillo and Iyionu Communities and they agreed to abide by all the decisions of the CAN.
According to the Govenor, the Security Council also directed that the Ezillo Councilor should be arrested and prosecuted immediately.
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