Open grave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nA village Head in Ikot Uduak community, Calabar Municipal local government area of Cross River State has allegedly jumped into graves being dug for a couple in the village, in an attempt to stop their burial.<\/p>\n
According to Daily Post, the Village Head, Her Highness Efio-Awan Asuquo Asibon has said the deceased couple, Mr and Mrs Ekpe Okon Edet will not be buried in the community because they are non-indigenes.<\/p>\n
Bassey Okon Edet, a son of the deceased while narrating the incident, said, \u201cThat is the corpses of my father and mother and the compound is where my grandfather bought and later transferred to my father, Ekpe Okon Effiom. We have the agreement and documents of the land.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Village Head, Efio-Awan Asibong, who lives close to our compound wanted to sell our land but because my father was alive, she couldn\u2019t do it. And she didn\u2019t make any attempt to eject my father. My father lived there and gave birth to 11 children (10 male and one female) and we\u2019d lived here for many years and also given birth to children.\u201d<\/p>\n
He noted also that \u201cWhen my father died, all of a sudden, Asibong said she wants to take over the compound. She\u2019d sold part of the land to someone who had already built a pharmacy store there. Now, when we wanted to bury our parents, the woman (Asibong) said we shouldn\u2019t bury them here, stating that we are not from here.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe sought help from the community leaders and others who said we have to bury our parents in that compound, but the Village Head insisted that we can\u2019t bury our parents because they are not from here.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said her mother gave my father the land for free, but it was a lie because the document that my father bought the land is there. The land document was written and signed in 1954. While digging the grave, she jumped inside the grave and stopped the people from digging it.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if she wants to have the compound, she should have, at least have sympathy on us and other children by dividing the compound into two halves and not for her to say she\u2019ll push us out and use a bulldozer to bring down all the structures that we\u2019ve erected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Village Head, Efio-Awan Asibong according to the report said that the people are her tenants, explaining that they don\u2019t have any document to the land and vowed that if they bury the corpses, she will exhume them.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the deceased sons came to me and I showed him a place (their family compound across the road) to bury his mother and father and he agreed, but his family rejected it and he didn\u2019t come back to tell me, instead they came with the people and insisted they must bury their parents as they started digging their graves.<\/p>\n
Read Also:\u00a0I Kill For Money And My Target Was To Kill 20 People \u2060\u2014 Suspect Arrested Over Mass Grave In Benue<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cI earlier brought people to help dig the graves for them where I originally showed them, but when they started digging the grave, one of them, Clement Ene, went and drove the boys digging the graves away and said he gave me N60, 000.<\/p>\n
\u201cI later called him and returned the N60, 000 back to him and told him to carry the corpses to either Goldie Cemetery to bury them there, but they refused. They are my tenants; I gave them a letter over 6 months ago to go to Calabar Municipality Council to show that we have agreed to bury someone here.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter they collected the N60, 000 they gave to me, they agreed to carry the corpses to bury elsewhere, but they turned around and left. They don\u2019t have any documents concerning this land. If they agree that they bought the land, then ask them to show you the agreement and the person that signed it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s an agreement between us and everyone we give land here, but where is theirs? If they had buried their father and mother, we would have gone to court and get an order to exhume the corpses,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n
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