Nsukka—No fewer than 10 houses were burnt, while unspecified number of people seriously injured at Ette in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, following disagreement by rival groups.

They were said to be agitating over whether to remain as part of the Enugu State or be merged with Kogi State.
However, soldiers from the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army have been deployed to the area to contain the situation.

It was gathered that the latest violence erupted when those who wanted to be merged with Kogi State attacked a youth leader opposing their move, after burning down his house.

According to police sources at Enugu Ezike, the headquarters of the local council, the group “attacked and shot the youth leader of those in favour of remaining in Enugu four times.

“Although the youth leader, Mr. Matthias Eje, survived the attack, he sustained several bullet wounds from the four shots, while his house was also burnt. The attackers also burnt other houses in Onoda part of Ette.”

The injured youth leader was said to be recuperating at a private Hospital (name withheld) in Enugu.

It was alleged that those in favour of remaining in Enugu State later re-grouped and launched a reprisal attack by burning some of the houses of their alleged attackers before the deployment of soldiers.

A prominent indigene of Ette, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said before the attack, “the pro-Enugu youths of Ette had successfully repelled the invading pro-Kogi armed youths four times in the past few weeks.

“Those attacks had in the past one year escalated to such a level that those in favour of ceding the large area fr
om Enugu to Kogi had forced a Catholic Church Parish to close down, while most government establishments in the area now barely exist.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/10-houses-razed-scores-injured-enugu-community-move-join-kogi/

nawao when will all dis community criss end sef.

pls remind me... How many higher institutions of learning do we have in Kogi and Enugu state? illiteracy at it's best

Display of caveman mentality!

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God deliver us.

See my signature for ur BB bold 5.

Though such decision is better left in the hand of the fg and state gov to decide.
The earlier they join their kitt and kin in kogi state the better for them.

All because of oil Oil is more of a curse in Nigeria

K

Niggaz be like "hi, I'm Chukwuma, from Kogi State"

Mtchewww...

In those community there are two tribe over there
Igala and igbos
The igbos wants to merge with enugu why igalas want to merge with kogi.

Right now they are all benefitting from enugu pocket.
Let igbos be igbos and igalas be igalas
After all igalas are not worthy to live with.
I have been with them before

[size=15pt]But why why why?

Why all these senseless killings?

This points to the fact that the END IS NEAR!!

All is just vanity upon vanity!

People should just learn to change their ways for good... [/size]

Youths dey fight for wetin dem go hardly benefit while the chiefs and politicians Wey go flex the oil money dey observe for one corner

Lack of understanding n education

whether you're from up North or down south.. From d East or West. An Igbo or Hausa, Yoruba or whatever.. You're Nigerian first before anything.

As a country, we yet have alot and alot of things to learn.

Why kill yourselves over something as trivial as this? There are more pressing issues to tackle for crap's sake. Na wa o

So sad.

People will just be writing crap in the name of "commenting"...

Mumus.

Dazzall.

Since FG discovered oil in that Boundary problem has increase,

Is crude oil a blessing or a curse to citizens in Nigerians?

Samiceman: pls remind me... How many higher institutions of learning do we have in Kogi and Enugu state? illiteracy at it's best

what is diz one saying ,all dz myopic thinkers that's hovering on nl.. smh

Wow this is serious! Last time I checked oil producing communities of Niger Delta are still one hell of tarzan jungle with no even good source of clean drinking water. So plsss, someone should remind me, what the hell are these mofos fighting for again?

pathetic one there. And some of these house owners must have built them with 'hard earned money'. May we be delivered of all these crises from within.

is there something i'm missing? or why exactly would anyone be particularly inclined to leave their state for Kogi?

I know the Igala people moved from Benue to Kogi in the past, but what exactly is the motivation?

Erotex: In those community there are two tribe over there
Igala and igbos
The igbos wants to merge with enugu why igalas want to merge with kogi.

Right now they are all benefitting from enugu pocket.
Let igbos be igbos and igalas be igalas
After all igalas are not worthy to live with.
I have been with them before

oloshi, igbos are worthy to live with abi?
shameless tribalist

Nah...nah. With all due respect , me sef no go like go Kogi.
i know it's one Nigeria, but just incase all 36 states décide to split...there are some states I wouldn't wanna be stuck in

AllI can see here is "two rival cult group" cause none of them has the right to decide the state they want to belong to.

I smell the dirty work of PeeDeePee....

Even if person wan even join state sef, shey na that kind Kogi state them suppose they fight to join?

Kogi state refusing development since 1922

Kogi State Just Want To Annex Them Before Islamising Them!

All this seperationist, na some people go give this people arm...