{"id":327784,"date":"2011-03-21T19:34:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/21\/communal-clash-in-a-ibom-claims-12\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T19:34:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:34:42","slug":"communal-clash-in-a-ibom-claims-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/communal-clash-in-a-ibom-claims-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Communal clash in A-Ibom claims 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BY TONY NYONG<\/strong><\/p>\n

UYO \u2013 NO fewer than 12 persons\u00a0 were feared\u00a0 killed in a communal clash, weekend, in some parts of Mbiabet Ikpe, in Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, while the Village Head of Mbiabet Ikot Uwa, who was abducted on the night of the mayhem is yet to return to his community. Meanwhile, sources say he may still be alive.<\/p>\n

The headless body of one of the victims was taken by the Divisional Police Officer of the area in the company of the council chairman to the morgue.<\/p>\n

All the houses in Ayehedia village with a population of\u00a0 3,000, people were leveled, as all the indigenes of the community had been sacked and forced to take refuge in neighbouring Mbiabet Ikot Udo, Ikpe Ikot Nkon, Mbiabet Esieyere and Ibam Edet villages.<\/p>\n

Domestic animals were completely wiped out, while farmlands in the once peaceful community, whose major occupation is subsistence farming, had been totally ravaged by irate youths of the warring communities.<\/p>\n

There are seven villages that make up Mbiabet Ikpe, and although they\u00a0 have a history of land dispute between the two villages, the problem, according to sources,\u00a0 this time around, started when a certain Joshua\u00a0 Job of Itie Ikpe, who had set a local fishing trap, discovered that\u00a0 youths from\u00a0 nearby Mbiabet Ikpe, close to\u00a0 Ayehedia, had\u00a0 removed the fishes from the trap in the night.<\/p>\n

Joshua, it was learnt had gone back to set the trap, but this time around,\u00a0 decided to keep vigil in a nearby bush all through the night. Late in the night, two youths from the other village were said to have gone to the first trap and\u00a0 emptied its catch\u00a0 into their bag and left to hide it somewhere.<\/p>\n

On their return to empty the second trap, Joshua, who had watched from his hideout, quietly crawled to where they kept the first bag, took hold of it, and\u00a0 waited for the boys, who quickly returned to pick the bag along with their second harvest.<\/p>\n

Joshua, it was learnt, attacked them, leaving\u00a0 machete cuts on one of the boys while the other escaped unhurt back to his village.<\/p>\n

The two boys, it was gathered,\u00a0 went home and organised youths from their village and the next morning, waylaid innocent indigenes of their assailant\u2019s village, who were going to\u00a0 market, but\u00a0 when\u00a0 youths of the other village became aware of the attack, they\u00a0 mobilized themselves and fought back,\u00a0 resulting to the death of seven persons in the first day of the clash.<\/p>\n

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