Last week, Deputy Governors of Ebonyi and Benue states, Dr. Kelechi Igwe and Chief Benson Abonu held a meeting at the Government House, Abakaliki and inaugurated three committees namely, Inter-community peace committee, Ohaukwu/Ado Inter-Local Governments Peace Committee and a Technical Committee with members drawn from the National Boundary Commission, Office of Surveyor General of the Federation and Surveyors General of Ebonyi and Benue states to end killings, maiming and destructions in the crisis.
But on Wednesday, four members of the peace committee who hailed from Ngbo community, in the Ohaukwu LGA of Ebonyi State, were beheaded, while two others sustained severe injuries on their way to a peace meeting in Benue State over the crisis.
The Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, on Thursday summoned a stakeholders’ meeting of people from the area and ordered the arrest of the chairman, Ohaukwu LGA of Ebonyi state, Hon.
But briefing the governor at Executive Chamber of the Government House earlier, the Chairman of Ohaukwu, Clement Odah, noted that the killings occurred barely one week after the Deputy Governor of Benue State and his Ebonyi counterpart, including the Chairman of Ardo LGA of Benue State, visited Ebonyi State and inaugurated three committees to find a lasting solution to the killings in the area.
Source: PUNCH NG