By Emma Una

CALABAR— An alleged beheading of a young man by a chief hunter, purportedly for the burial ceremony of a high chief, weekend, led to hostilities between two neighbouring communities in Obubra Local Government Area of Cross River State, which has left over 10 people dead and many houses razed.
The conflict between the people of Ogwurude and their Oyidah neighbours began when head hunters from Oyidah community allegedly harvested the head of a young man which they intended to use in the burial ceremony of a chief.


A resident, Clement Ekpe, said: “Some head hunters chased the okada boy, who was returning from Oyidah Market with a lady and caught up with him at Ogwurude Junction. They asked the lady to run into the bush, killed the boy and cut off his head.
“When the lady got home and narrated what happened, some Ogwurude youths rushed to the junction, where they found the headless body of the young man. They followed the bloodstains on the road to Oyidah community.


“They informed Oyidah’s Village Head about the incident and asked that those who carried out the act be brought out and handed over to the police.
“However, the Village Head could not produce the perpetrators and that led to a reprisal attack that night from the Ogwurude people.”


Another source, who could not confirm the exact number of people killed in Oyidah, said as many as seven people died, but that two persons from Ogwurude were killed in the fracas, while many houses were set ablaze in both communities.


Mr. Jude Ngaji, Cross River State Security Adviser, said peace had returned to the feuding communities with security operatives deployed to the area, while efforts are on to hold meetings with leaders of both communities to find lasting solution to the conflict.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/10-dead-c-river-communities-go-war-human-head-chiefs-burial/

this is serious, so they still bury people with human parts in this country... which way my people? an innocent life was just terminated prematurely because the chief of a village died. what if the king now dies nko? omo that one Nah 4dozens of heads ooo

barbaric!!! God forbid

Despite intellectual advancement in this 21st coupled with the rise of Christianity, vestigial barbaric practise still prevail? The government at all level must ensure that perpetrators of this heinous crime are not only severely punished, but must see to d end of this demonic and unwholesome culture. What nonsense!

This is barbaric, sardonic, heinous and instigating....


The two communities should find a quick solution to this issue before it escalates further.... God bless Nigeria...

Nonsense.

cross river state is just so primitive, backward and crude. Especially that obubra and ugep.

They still eat human bodies in that part of the world and that's why they don't value life.. Useless set of ppl and as it was happening, our police will be like...

Nonsense and primitive practice.

why dont they use the head of their kinsmen? Instead of using the head of someone from another village. This barbaric act is practiced all over nigeria!!!

useless police.... arrest the village heads let them produce the culprits, so if u find lasting peace the slain guy will just go like that ? what a useless and cowardice people we have in Nigeria police TUFIAKWA