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[i]Ette Belongs to Kogi, Not Enugu: Community Counters Enugu Govt’s Claim, Cites Legal Evidence | Nigeria News Today

The long-standing interstate boundary dispute involving Ette community has intensified as stakeholders representing the area have formally rejected the Enugu State Government’s statement dismissing reports that the National Boundary Commission (NBC) affirmed Ette as belonging to Kogi State.

In a detailed rejoinder issued through Crownfield Solicitors and signed by Chief Festus Ameh Ogwuche, PhD, the Ette community described the Enugu State Government’s position as misleading, legally weak and unsupported by formal boundary
records.

The Bureau News: Community Challenges Enugu State’s ‘Fake News’ Narrative

According to the rejoinder, Enugu State’s public defense rests only on an alleged “oral denial” attributed to the Director-General of the NBC. The statement insists that no written retraction, circular, or authenticated official communication exists to counter NBC findings already backed by structured boundary procedures.

The Ette stakeholders stressed that the boundary position did not arise from a single letter but from years of comprehensive fieldwork, ethnographic assessments, scientific boundary tracing, and technical delineation exercises supervised by the NBC and the Office of the Surveyor General of the Federation in line with a Supreme Court directive.

The exercises confirmed Ette’s location within Kogi State jurisdiction while accusing Enugu State of persistent unlawful territorial encroachment.

Nigeria News Today: Evidence Points to Kogi State Jurisdiction

The legal team revealed that boundary activities were jointly undertaken with full participation of both states, including Enugu officials who allegedly endorsed earlier boundary positions. However, when the final demarcation phase was scheduled, Enugu State reportedly failed to participate on several occasions, citing logistics and funding constraints.

The community argued that a state that repeatedly avoided demarcation exercises cannot later depend on political press releases to distort established boundary facts.

Calls for Action

Stakeholders demanded that:

1. Enugu State Government should produce verifiable documentary evidence or desist from misinformation.
2. The National Boundary Commission should conclude the demarcation exercise without further delay.
3. Authorities in Enugu should cease administrative interference in Ette pending final boundary enforcement.

The rejoinder maintained that Ette’s true territorial identity is grounded on verifiable law, maps, history and factual administrative records rather than political narratives.

The Bureau News will continue to monitor developments surrounding this sensitive interstate boundary issue as the National Boundary Commission moves forward with its mandate.

Source: The Bureau News

Make them go Call people wae first Map the Boundaries

The way government officials tell lies in Nigeria is just alarming this days o!

I don't know how we get to the level whereby government officials in Nigeria will tell you good morning and you will look at your wrist watch first before replying them.

Tomorrow they are still the same people who will be complaining that their people doesn't believe them.

Nawaoo!


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yarimo:
Always good at claiming others people properties. Mteeeew

It's your APC people.

Why are you suprise and angry?


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That should be one of the most successful parts of Kogi

yarimo:
Always good at claiming others people properties. Mteeeew

How can evil be castigating evil

I'm i dreaming?

Mba don join APC next na drag land like Wike

However, Igbo ethnic group were cheated, their lands were ceded to other states and communities, Igbos are found in part of Rivers State, places like;
Ahoda West
Emohua
Ikwerre
Etche
Ogba Egbema/ndoni
Oyigbo
Omuma
Ndoki
Obio/Akpor
Port Harcourt City
The above mentioned LGAs and communities are indigenous Igbo communities ceded to Rivers State. I have indigenous Igbo spoken friends from Bonny and Opobo but I won't add them since they are dominated.

Igbos make half of Delta State, Igbos are found in part of Benue State and Cross Rivers State. Let's not forget we have small Igbo communities in Akwa Ibom, the part bordering Ngwa and Arochukwu in Abia State.

If these boundaries (though these ethnic groups I mentioned won't agree to Igbo becos of their bad character) are reconnected, Igbo may be even than southwest

COMRADES, is there any place that better than the other in this country?

The Ette community should be happy Enugu state assumes ownership. What’s Kogi state compared to Enugu? Kogi state is probably the worst and most underdeveloped state in Nigeria with empty large land mass. Anyway, the culture and traditions of the Ette people can be investigated to know where they fall.

Ette belongs to the SE but Anioma doesn't belong to the SS, abi?

Anambra North Local Government is Igala speaking. It belongs to Kogi.
Nsukka North in Enugu has a large population of Igala people.

When the time comes, that land will be taken from the South East and added to other parts of Kogi East and parts of Benue to form the proposed Okura state.

Please Peter let those backward guys go.

The way a set of people in this country drags land and people ehnnn.

They are everywhere at the same time dragging everybody.
Today it is Ikwerre. Tomorrow is Anioma.

Next tomorrow is Ette.
Despite these people always coming out to deny any historical or ancestral links with them.

Ublaize:
The Ette community should be happy Enugu state assumes ownership. What’s Kogi state compared to Enugu? Kogi state is probably the worst and most underdeveloped state in Nigeria which empty large land mass. Anyway, the culture and traditions of the Ette people can investigated to know where they fall.

What is Imo and Anambra compared to Delta state?
But you people want to carry Anioma and lump them with Imo to create a new state.

BeardedMeat:
Please Peter let those backward guys go.

They can move about on Mondays.
Can your people try it?

Ublaize:
The Ette community should be happy Enugu state assumes ownership. What’s Kogi state compared to Enugu? Kogi state is probably the worst and most underdeveloped state in Nigeria which empty large land mass. Anyway, the culture and traditions of the Ette people can investigated to know where they fall.

It’s about ethnicity and cultural identity. They identify as igalas and want to be in the same state as their kinsmen and women

Kayode , your point is noted.

Wickedtruths:
Ette belongs to the SE but Anioma doesn't belong to the SS, abi?

indigenous234:
Kayode , your point is noted.

nwOsu, thanks for letting it sink in.

Ublaize:
The Ette community should be happy Enugu state assumes ownership. What’s Kogi state compared to Enugu? Kogi state is probably the worst and most underdeveloped state in Nigeria which empty large land mass. Anyway, the culture and traditions of the Ette people can investigated to know where they fall.

I swear I served in kogi state. Poverty left right and center 😆

After we participated in one of their festive ceremonies , we gave a woman 1000 naira. This was in 2012. This was a token of appreciation to her for hosting us. Can you imagine she jumped up in joy and threw her daughter at me, so I can devour her. 😆 can never forget that day .Nigeria problem no be today

Wickedtruths:
They can move about on Mondays.
Can your people try it?

Yet they are still the poorest and weakest link. Is your oba in bandits captivity moving around on Mondays?

Land grabbing late in the Year...
Don't cross over with this mentality.

BeardedMeat:
Yet they are still the poorest and weakest link. Is your oba in bandits captivity moving around on Mondays?

Poorest?
By this time last year, they were looking for those who trampled themselves to death over uncooked rice in Anambra.

Very good next is

Igala in anambra
Ijaw in imo


I mean they are claiming Igbos in delta

Wickedtruths:
What is Imo and Anambra compared to Delta state?
But you people want to carry Anioma and lump them with Imo to create a new state.

leave this people they are hypocrites

Kogi and their supporters are just acting blindly. Unfortunately they don't know the constitutional procedures in moving the administrative rights of a particular community from one state to another.

Ublaize:
The Ette community should be happy Enugu state assumes ownership. What’s Kogi state compared to Enugu? Kogi state is probably the worst and most underdeveloped state in Nigeria which empty large land mass. Anyway, the culture and traditions of the Ette people can investigated to know where they fall.

delta state is richer than all of south east but you want anioma

zinaunreal:
I swear I served in kogi state. Poverty left right and center 😆

You're probably alive because you served in Kogi.
You should have gone to serve in Simon Ekpa's enclave.
Go and ask what the vigilantes in Anambra did to your fellow Youth Corper.

AmGreat1234:
Kogi and their supporters are just acting blindly. Unfortunately they don't know the constitutional procedures in moving the administrative rights of a particular community from one state to another.

You should go and tell your meddlesome elders in Iboland pokenosing in Delta state matters as regards Anioma.