The Chairman of the Abia State Boundary Committee and Deputy Governor of the State, Ikechuckwu Emetu, has suggested the National Boundary Commission, NBC, to muster sufficient willpower to completely sort out boundary disputes between Abia communities and their neighbours in different states.
He gave the recommendation at Government House, Umuahia, throughout a vital assembly he held with members of the Abia State Boundary Committee.
He made it clear that the present administration within the state is set to resolve conflicts alongside boundary areas of the State.
He identified that boundary disputes and different types of conflicts produce penalties such because the destruction of lives and property, lack of farmlands and financial crops, including that a number of indigenes of affected communities have been forcefully displaced from their unique houses throughout such boundary conflicts.
He, due to this fact, charged the National Boundary Commission, Abia State Boundary Committee, and different related stakeholders to urgently synergize in producing everlasting options to the lingering inner boundary points whereas urging the members of Abia State Boundary Committee to desk their wants and challenges in accordance with him, Abia State Government is able to present all vital help to the committee.
Responding, the Surveyor General of Of Abia State, Mr Ivo Onye, and a Permanent Secretary within the State, Mr Franklin Onyema, listed some challenges dealing with the Abia State Boundary Committee, together with lack of autos, poor logistics and lack of supplies.
The Boundary Committee members disclosed that seven States are presently concerned in boundary disputes with their neighbouring communities of Abia State however promised that the Committee would do its greatest to deliver a long-lasting resolution to the matter at the same time as they appealed for presidency help.
Media Talk Africa recollects that a number of communities within the State are but to resolve their boundary disputes with neighbours from Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Imo, Anambra and Ebonyi State, which have both claimed lives or brought about heavy destruction of property.
Among the realm the place lives have been misplaced embrace Ariam Usaka within the Ikwuano Local Government Area throughout their persistent conflict with their neighbours Nkari neighborhood of Ini LGA in Akwa Ibom State.
A former House of Assembly member representing the Ikwuano constituency, Stanley Nwabuisi, lamented in a earlier interview that over 20 individuals from the Ikwuano neighborhood had been killed throughout a boundary-related conflict with their Akwa Ibom neighbours.
Other areas are Arochukwu and Ohafia LGAs, the place the lack of lives was recorded within the current previous.
At Umunnochi, Ukwa East and Umuahia North LGAs, boundary points have additionally led to land grabbing, invasion and destruction of property.
