Akwa Ibom blames incessant boundary crisis on Decree 23
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By Harris Emanuel, Uyo
Akwa Ibom State government has blamed the promulgation of decree 23 of 1985 as the bane of the lingering boundary crises across the country, calling for an overhaul of the law by the National Assembly.
Deputy governor, Moses Ekpo stated this during the Joint Sensitization and Enlightenment campaign visit of officials of the National Boundary Commission to the border communities of Akwa Ibom/ Abia interstate boundary, held at the Forward Operations Military Base in Ika Local Government Area of the state.
The Deputy Governor noted that the decree amounted to an administrative error as it was wrong for people to stay in faraway places and demarcate areas they had no idea about, even without considering the consequences of such action on the relationship of the people living in such areas.
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Abia Stakeholders to Police: Fish out hoodlums behind attack on Omoba Police station
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By Ugochukwu Alaribe – Umuahia
Stakeholders of the Isiala Ngwa North and Isiala Ngwa council areas, have condemned the burning of the Omoba police station and killing of a policeman in the area and urged the Police fish out those behind the act.
Recall that yet to be identified hoodlums, numbering about 20, had razed the Divisional Police station at Omoba, headquarters of Isiala Ngwa South council, killed a policeman and allegedly looted the armoury.
In a communiqué read at the end of a stakeholders’ meeting at Eziama Nvosi, Isiala Ngwa South council, by the Member representing Isiala Ngwa North and Isiala Ngwa South federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Chief Darlington Nwokocha, the people of the area warned against any incursion of criminals into their territory and resolved to rise against it.