TO: THE CHAIRMAN JUDICIAL COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY INTO THE EFFIUM/ EZZA EFFIUM CRISIS, ABAKALIKI, EBONYI STATE.

DATE: 21st day of February, 2021

TITLE: MEMORANDUM SUBMITTED TO THE JUDICIAL COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY INTO THE EFFIUM/ EZZA EFFIUM CRISIS.
INTRODUCTION/ BACKGROUND

I write as an indigene of Effium in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State and as an interested party in the ongoing Effium/ Ezza Effium crisis. I thank the panel of inquiry for their resilience, efforts and virtue poured out in making sure that the situation is arrested and peace restored in my beloved hometown of Effium. This is an opportunity to convey the intentions of the indigenous people of Effium both at home and in diaspora on the incessant crisis that has rocked our land and to proffer a lasting solution for the purpose of preserving the lives of the inhabitants of our dear land. The situation we find ourselves is a chaotic and devastating one that has caused the indigenous people of Effium not only economic damage but has also desecrated our land with bloodshed of the indigenous people of Effium by her Ezza migrants/ residents.
On behalf of the indigenous people of Effium, I appreciate the governor of Ebonyi State, His Excellency Engineer David Nweze Umahi and his team for the efforts and machinery put in place since this present crisis emanated for the purpose of quelling this crisis. It is imperative to draw the attention of the panel of enquiry to the misconception of the public that the current crisis is between Effium and Ezza – Effium, rather it is between effium and her Ezza residents. There is no place in the geographical map and or location of Ebonyi State that is known and called Ezza – Effium. The state only recognizes Effium. The name Ezza – Effium was formulated by the Ezza residents in Effium as a result of their domineering and oppressive attitude as well as increase in population.
Effium is a tribe of the Orrin ethnic group an igboid sub ethnic nationality group that comprises of the following:

i. Effium, Ntezi, Okpoto, Amunda all are communities within the geographical space of Ebonyi State.
ii. Utonko also called Uffia, this community form part of the present day Benue State.
iii. Ukelle a community that form part of the present day Cross River State.
Effium is the first son of the Orrin ethnic group which is a sub ethnic group in the larger igbo family. Effium is the ancestral land of Effium indigenous people made of seven (7) major autonomous clans of Effium tribe which are (1) Osata (2) Wogu (3) Wogbale (4) Waatuma (5) Inyafuo (6) Ogbagere (7) Uffiacha.

By the ongoing crisis in the Effium community in the Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, I tender this memorandum to aid the panel of enquiry in reaching a fair, just and equitable decision that shall help to preserve the land of Effium from further destruction of lives and properties. Historically, Ezza residents in Effium migrated from the present day Ezza North and South both in Ebonyi State in the year 1909 without any official invitation by our forefathers, wherein our forefathers allocated lands to them for farming, housed and fed them for seven (7) years at no cost. The Ezzas as at that time had strong and offensive body odor that our forefathers could not cope with, hence their houses were built behind that of our forefathers. At that time our forefathers referred to the Ezzas as “uja we ebebe” meaning backyard Ezza as a result of their body offensive odor. As time passed, the Ezza migrants started inviting their families from Ezza North and South trooping in numbers unfettered by our forefathers who never felt threatened whatsoever by their numbers. They kept increasing in numbers and became larger in numbers than the land owners i.e the indigenous people of Effium. The Ezza migrants/ residents at the time found Effium to be a peaceful place devoid of discrimination and as well they became prosperous and never dishonored our forefathers. Prior to the arrival of Ezza people to Effium land, Effium played host community to various igbo communities including but not limited to (1) Isuochi, Arochukwu people of the present day Abia State (2) Awka people of the present day Anambra State (3) Uburu and Okposi people both of Ebonyi State.


REMOTE CAUSES OF THE CRISIS

Overtime, the indigenous people of Effium have always treated their subjects with respect and their opinion sought in any decision making. Things were peaceful between the host community and her Ezza migrants/ residents until after the creation of Ebonyi State in 1995. It was after the creation of the state that the Ezza residents felt the need to encroach into Effium political activities since they are larger in number, more connected and educated than the indigenous people of Effium and could demand for whatsoever they so desire. They have always been ready to do whatever it takes to achieve their devilish and satanic objective even to the extent of bloodshed. The Ezzas started encroaching both in Effium political, traditional and chieftaincy affairs, they became judges in their own cause i.e matters involving the indigenous people of Effium and the Ezzas and engaged in corrupt practices including but not limited to money bribery and sorcery. The Ezzas migrants/ residents demanded for none existing rights in the political and none political positions within the enclave of the indigenous people of Effium. Any attempt to question their locus standing was met with extreme violence and often times bloodshed. They have for some time evaded and encroached into our forests, natural resources and claimed undue interference in the control of these God given resources.

Below are the factors that generated this chaotic atmosphere:

i. Undue and unlawful interference in the Effium political affairs and disposal of natural resources in Effium land.
ii. Encroachment on the cultural, traditional and chieftaincy affairs/ matter within the Effium indigenous people.
iii. Illegal and unwarranted claiming of Effium lands, forest reserves, solid minerals and economic trees.
iv. Incessant extra – judicial killing of the indigenous people of Effium by the Ezza residents at every slightest provocation.
v. Ezza residents have often stood as a clog on the wheel of economic development in Effium land by their inordinate demands e.g is the obstruction of the proposed Ibeto cement factory by the Ezza residents since the year 2006.
vi. The various crisis that has hit the land in 1998, 2002, and 2016, which the Ezzas saw as an opportunity to kill the indigenous people of Effium.
vii. Illegal, unlawful and unauthorized changing of ancient land marks as well as renaming of some locations and villages to fulfil their mischievous, domineering and land grabbing objective.
viii. Desperate demand for the creation of Ezza – Ezekuna autonomous community in Effium land by the adoption of mischievous and deceptive mechanism such as “Forum of stakeholders of Effium indigenes of Ezza – ezekuna.

IMMEDIATE CAUSES OF THE CRISIS

The quest for political power, extra – judicial killing, inordinate demands and the land grabbing nature of the Ezza migrants/ residents have created distrust among the Effium indigenes and the Ezza resident in Effium. To further elucidate, buttress and or corroborate my assertion is the recent crisis between the Ezza people and the Eziulo people both in Ebonyi State, also the crisis between Ezza and the people of Oshiri. The mischievous nature of the Ezza people have resulted into hatred of the Ezza people both in and outside the state, Effium inclusive.

RECOMMENDATION

In light of the events of the past weeks, we further appreciate the efforts of the state government and panel of enquiry for their hard work during this trying time in our lives and we hope that peace be restored to the land of Effium as soon as possible. Consequent upon the foregoing and having considered the threat of the continuous co – existence of the indigenous people of Effium and her Ezza residents and its forseeable implications due to distrust and unhealed/ fresh wounds between us, I humbly recommend as follows:
1. That the state government order and or compel the Ezza residents in Effium out of Effium land with immediate effect. The continuous stay of the Ezzas in effium will only pose a bigger danger and more bloodshed which the indigenous people of Effium abhor.
2. That the Ebonyi State Governor His Excellency Engineer David Nweze Umahi, through his prestigious office carve out lands in Ezza North and South for the Ezza resident in Effium to settle in accordance with the Land Use Act, 1978.
3. That the Ezza residents in Effium stay clear from all political and none political affairs due the Indigenous people of Effium.
4. The Ebonyi state government should place an absolute bar on the Ezza residents in Effium land from continuous interference in our cultural, traditional and chieftaincy matters, as well as our natural resources, lands, forest reserves, solid minerals, agricultural resources and unwarranted, illegal and unauthorized sale thereof.
5. That the state government enforce the exit order as a matter of urgency as our lives are continually threatened by their presence in Effium land.
6. That the state government should place an absolute bar on the Ezza migrants/ residents in Effium from further disseminating concocted history of their existence and co – ownership of Effium land by dishing out fake information by circulating same within the public space and or terrain, through the help of social media and the internet.
7. That the state government enforce all rights due the indigenous people of Effium.
8. That all banners, billboards, sign boards and or sign posts reading Ezza – Effium be expunged from the land of the indigenous people of Effium to reflect the original intentions of our forefathers.

CONCLUSION

We wish the panel of enquiry success during this fact finding and crisis resolution task. We hope that through this panel and with the adoption of the approach in the Ezza and Eziulo crisis resolution as precedent, the panel shall reach a just and fair conclusion.

By
Edeja Victor. C

Sahara reporters will later gather these pictures and tell us Fulani herdsmen did this.

This Ebonyi People Sef Fight Nor The Tire Them,
And If U See The Land They Are Dieing For Sef Even Obasanjo Farm In Sango Is Bigger Than.
The Statemen Nor The Tire For Fighting Over Piece Of Land.
Rest In Peace To The Death Tho.
Lots Of Shit Happens In Nigeria.
Smh

Orgasm. This is Aesthetic and Awesome

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

tsephanyah:
Orgasm. Aesthetic and Awesome

Boko Haram says Hi.

e sha long oh....omoh summary please

If they should divide this country, wahala nor go still end. Na so e just be for Nigeria.

with the formation of Biafra, would this stop? no. state creation in whatever form is not the solution for Nigeria. what we need is hard working leaders of integrity.

Misterone:
with the formation of Biafra, would this stop? no. state creation in whatever form is not the solution for Nigeria. what we need is hard working leaders of integrity.

Why should the existence of Biafra be tied to absence or presence of communal clashes? Communal clashes are happening in Nigeria, why then is Nigeria still existing?

In Biafra, we would resolve our communal clashes by improving the living standard of the population.
Its that simple.

Ezza people again
Notorious James Nwafor kinsmen. Those guys has unsatiable thirst for blood

Reading

Osagyefo98:
Ezza people again

Notorious James Nwafor kinsmen. Those guys has unsatiable thirst for blood


Reading

Am telling you. Very wicked set of people with offensive body odour. They use to send and pay Fulani herdsmen to kill off ndi effium.

Ezza residents have often stood as a clog on the wheel of economic development in Effium land by their inordinate demands e.g is the obstruction of the proposed Ibeto cement factory by the Ezza residents since the year 2006.

Now I am seeing full sense in what Joe igbokwe said on the video interview.

He said something about this ebonyi attitude and now this piece is corroborating the claim as true.

adadike:
Am telling you. Very wicked set of people with offensive body odour. They use to send and pay Fulani herdsmen to kill off ndi effium.

Why you come dey finish Ezza people like this naaa?

adadike:
Am telling you. Very wicked set of people with offensive body odour. They use to send and pay Fulani herdsmen to kill off ndi effium.

I have read so much negative reports about the ezza people. Their taste for blood has no control again..

They go as far as inviting their fellow fulani to aid them in killing the indigeneous populace.


Those guys might have lived in Somalia years back.

Osagyefo98:




I have read so much negative reports about the ezza people. Their taste for blood has no control again..

They go as far as inviting their fellow fulani to aid them in killing the indigeneous populace.


Those guys might have lived in Somalia years back.

All of una igbo people no get sense one bit, from Aguleri killing and murdering Umuleri people to Ezza people occupying other peoples land, only in the east. That's so stupid of you all. Tueh!

adadike:
Am telling you. Very wicked set of people with offensive body odour. They use to send and pay Fulani herdsmen to kill off ndi effium.

All of una igbo people no get sense one bit, from Aguleri killing and murdering Umuleri people to Ezza people occupying other peoples land, only in the east. That's so stupid of you all. Tueh!

Osagyefo98:
Ezza people again

Notorious James Nwafor kinsmen. Those guys has unsatiable thirst for blood


Reading

All of una for East no get shame, James Nwafor killed u all like chicken and Lagos toll gate is your concern. From Ezza killing Effium to Aguleri killing and murdering Umuleri people. Joe Igbokwe was right, you all can't live within yourself

waleademolaa:

All of una igbo people no get sense one bit, from Aguleri killing and murdering Umuleri people to Ezza people occupying other peoples land, only in the east. That's so stupid of you all. Tueh!

Stop hiding under Yoruba moniker and be deceiving people.

Nzuzu on Freestyle..

Ezza people are filthy blood thirsty sub group of Hausa fulani.

Osagyefo98:


Stop hiding under Yoruba moniker and be deceiving people.

Nzuzu on Freestyle..

Ezza people are filthy blood thirsty sub group of Hausa fulani.

The whole igbo people are blood thirsty naw, from trying to colonise south south land to Aguleri and Umuleri killing and murdering themselves as a sub group of fulani murderers.
Òpònú

waleademolaa:

All of una igbo people no get sense one bit, from Aguleri killing and murdering Umuleri people to Ezza people occupying other peoples land, only in the east. That's so stupid of you all. Tueh!

trashy trash! Attention seeker, your rubbish has been noticed. Next!

waleademolaa:

All of una for East no get shame, James Nwafor killed u all like chicken and Lagos toll gate is your concern. From Ezza killing Effium to Aguleri killing and murdering Umuleri people. Joe Igbokwe was right, you all can't live within yourself

Stop disturbing me with this Moniker you cloned under.. mtcheew.

adadike:
trashy trash! Attention seeker, your rubbish has been noticed. Next!

U know I'm saying the truth, had it been is yoruba now we won't hear a word from u all. Hypocrites

adadike:
trashy trash! Attention seeker, your rubbish has been noticed. Next!

He is an Ezza boy hiding under ademola moniker.

How can people be hell bent on killing people who accommodated them if they are not murderers.

Osagyefo98:


Stop disturbing me with this Moniker you cloned under.. mtcheew.

Only u know what yours talking about, and I still maintain that igbo people are opposite sides of the same coin as fulani savages, drink the bitter tea

Osagyefo98:


He is an Ezza boy hiding under ademola moniker.

How can people be hell bent on killing people who accommodated them if they are not murderers.

Ogun forbid I'm close to anything Igboid, proudly omo oduduwa

waleademolaa:

The whole igbo people are blood thirsty naw, from trying to colonise south south land to Aguleri and Umuleri killing and murdering themselves as a sub group of fulani murderers.
Òpònú

Tell your Ezza people to go back wherever they came from.

We can't habour marauders in our midst.

waleademolaa:

Only u know what yours talking about, and I still maintain that igbo people are opposite sides of the same coin as fulani savages, drink the bitter tea

Yawns...next

Osagyefo98:


Tell your Ezza people to go back wherever they came from.

We can't habour marauders in our midst.

Waiting concern me with Igboid wahala, kill unaselves for all we care, nonsense tribe

waleademolaa:
Ogun forbid I'm close to anything Igboid, proudly omo oduduwa

Who cares..Ezza are not Igboid. We are not killers
next

waleademolaa:

Waiting concern me with Igboid wahala, kill unaselves for all we care, nonsense tribe

Alright, then stop bothering yourself over our comments on Ezza people.

They are killers.