OVER 1000 DISPLACED IN ABIA COMMUNITY OVER ALLEGED MILITARY INVASION

REPORTER: LAWRENCE NWOKEDI

A Methodist Bishop, Dr. Sunday Onuoha, has advocated the establishment of a peace and reconciliation commission that will address crisis between security agencies and their host communities in Abia State.

Bishop Onuoha stated this while distributing relief items to displaced persons from Amangwu Community in Ohafia Local Government Area who were camped at a neighbouring community Amaekpu, Ohafia.

They were displaced following an alleged attack by the military on the community over alleged missing of a solider in the area recently.

The bishop expressed shocked at the in-human condition the affected displaced persons were going through as most of them had become homeless.

Dr. Onuoha called on both the Federal and State Ministries of Health to send relief materials to the displaced persons in order to checkmate any possible outbreak of epidemics.

The traditional ruler of Amaekpu Community, where the displaced persons were camped, Eze Uduma Kalu, described the incident as very unfortunate stating that it was a fundamental matter that could be avoided if adequate measures were taken on time.

Efforts made by Radio Nigeria to speak with the Public Relations Officer of the Army 14 Brigade Ohafia, Captain Innocent Omale, on the matter was unsuccessful as did not answer phone calls put across to him.

Over one thousand persons, mostly women and children from Amangwu Community, are in the displaced camp at Amaekpu Ohaofia.

EDITED BY CHUKWUBUIKE MADU