By PATRICK ABANG Calabar –
Former lawmaker, Rt. Hon. Moses Onor has called on the Cross River State Government to implement without delay the Justice Ekeng Efiong Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by former Governor, Liyel Imoke in 2009.
Mr. Onor said he has been detained three times for asking for full implications of the said report.
He stated this on Wednesday while addressing journalists at Ernest Etim Bassey Press Center in company of leaders of Onyadama Community over the disputed land between Nko and Onyedadama Community.
The lawmaker frowned at the inability of the government to implement the judicial commission of inquiry as being responsible for the escalation of conflict between the two warring community.
He said: “There is no doubt at all that the age long crises between Nko and Onyedadama Community has its root in the alleged disputed land, lying and situate along both sides of the Calabar-Ikom Highway between Nko and Onyedadama Community’.
Also speaking the Spokesman of Onyadama Community, Mr Festus Obo and Chief Vincent Erena the Clan head of Onyadama Community, said the present aggressive push by the Nko people began in earnest with the clash of 2009, when the then Governor of Cross River State Liyel Imoke in exercise of Powers conferred on him, by section 2 (1) of the Commission of inquiry with with robust terms of reference.
According to them, in the said report, Nko Community allegedly claimed that their land boundary with Onyedadama Community is at the Okwo (Lokpor) River of which the state demonstrated strong political will and commitment to follow through and implement it decisions would have rested these issues permanently.
,”The Commission saw as a fact that the Okwo (Lokpor) River was right inside the Onyadama Community’
The renewed violence allegedly perpetuated against us by the Nko people against us is still hinged on the same claimed that the Okwo (Lokpor) River is the natural boundary with Onyedadama Community by the Nko Community.
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