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Two dead as Ebonyi erupts again

From UZOR EMMANUEL UZOR, Abakaliki.

FRESH clashes between Ezillo and Ezza communities in Ebonyi State, yesterday (Monday) claimed two more lives, bringing to 14 the total death toll since the supremacy battle over the ownership of a local market erupted on May 10 this year.

National Daily investigations revealed that no fewer than 100 houses, five vehicles, seven motorcycles and other valuables worth millions of naira were torched when the crisis between the two rival language groups erupted in Ezillo. Several people were wounded in the mayhem.

Ishielu council Chairman Barrister Onwa Ali Onwa confirmed the killings of the two young men to National Daily in his office in Abakaliki.

Onwa said one victim was hacked to death, and the second died instantly after being hit by a stray bullet when four youths dressed in black robe stopped at Isimkpuma Junction along Enugu-Abakaliki Expressway spread bullets randomly at people and zoomed off.

It could be recalled that when the crisis erupted in May, Governor Martin Elechi mediated in the case and immediately set up peace committee comprising community and religious leaders in the state.
The panel two weeks ago submitted its report which the government was studying before the latest eruption.
Meanwhile, leaders of the rival communities were yesterday said to have reached a cease-fire pact.