After 20 years in exile, Cross River community seeks security cover for return

After 2 decades of displacement, residents of Ebijakara assemblage successful Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State person appealed to the authorities authorities to supply information screen to alteration their instrumentality to ancestral homes.

The community, which was forced to fly pursuing protracted communal clashes successful the Bahamono axis, said its radical stay scattered crossed neighbouring settlements contempt years of comparative calm.

Leaders of the assemblage made the entreaty during a vigor treatment connected Pulse of Unity, a FAD FM programme successful Calabar, wherever they stressed the urgency of government-backed resettlement.

Speaking connected the programme, a assemblage leader, Samuel Ogbodum, said though bid efforts had reduced tensions, displaced residents inactive necessitate information assurances earlier returning.

He disclosed that the assemblage had formally notified the authorities authorities and information agencies of its program to instrumentality connected April 15, 2026, urging authorities to deploy capable protection.

“We person written to the authorities and information agencies to pass them of our volition to instrumentality to our ancestral home. What we are asking for present is capable information beingness to springiness our radical the assurance to determination backmost peacefully,” helium said.

Another representative, Ita Ben Itu, ...