C'River moves to end 20-year Ebom-Ebijaghara crisis

Cross River State authorities says it has begun implementing recommendations aimed astatine resolving the protracted communal situation betwixt Ebom and Ebijaghara communities successful Abi Local Government Area.

The situation has lasted implicit 20 years leaving an expanding decease toll and demolition of properties.

Deputy Governor Peter Odey disclosed this yesterday during a gathering with assemblage leaders and information stakeholders astatine the Government House successful Calabar, wherever helium outlined further plans to reconstruct bid and facilitate the instrumentality of displaced Ebijaghara residents to their ancestral homes.

Odey, who chairs the State Boundary Committee, said a reviewed study and White Paper from a committee led by Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba would usher the government's efforts to resoluteness the dispute.

He identified the ongoing operation of the Bahumono roadworthy web arsenic 1 of the recommendations being implemented, adding that the authorities was determined to forestall further nonaccomplishment of lives and demolition of property.

The Deputy Governor urged leaders of some communities to clasp dialog and marque compromises to extremity the lingering crisis.

Earlier, the Senior State Security Adviser, Major Gen. Obono Ubi, rtd, said the gathering was convened to code the prolonged displacement of...