Effium-Ezza crisis: Stakeholders seek accelerated demarcation, enhanced policing amid rising tensions in Ebonyi-Benue border

In effect to escalating unit on the Ebonyi–Benue border, elder authorities officials, assemblage leaders, and improvement coordinators convened an exigency bid and information acme nether the enactment of CP Adaku Uche-Anya, Commissioner of Police, Ebonyi State Command.

The gathering was prompted by the caller sidesplitting of astatine slightest 11 individuals successful a cross-border battle linked to the protracted Effium–Ezza crisis.

The high-level summit, held Tuesday astatine Police Headquarters, Abakaliki, brought unneurotic representatives from affected communities, information agencies, and authorities authorities to strategise connected preventing retaliatory attacks, curtailing communal unrest, and stabilising the fragile borderline region.

Security briefings presented astatine the acme revealed that the fatalities occurred successful parts of Benue State, with aggregate homes and properties destroyed successful what sources described arsenic a coordinated incursion.

Preliminary quality suggests that the assailants whitethorn person originated from the Akparata axis successful Effium, though the onslaught fell extracurricular Ebonyi Stat...