Activist urges Nwifuru to stop attacks, lift sanctions on Ebonyi community
Ebonyi State Governor Francis Nwifuru has been called upon by a human rights activist, Maduabuchi. Idam, to curb the renewed attacks by some Edda people on Amasiri in Afikpo North
- By Sherifdeen Amusa
Ebonyi State Governor Francis Nwifuru has been called upon by a human rights activist, Maduabuchi. Idam, to curb the renewed attacks by some Edda people on Amasiri in Afikpo North Local Government.
Idam also urged Nwifuru to lift the almost three-month curfew and other sanctions he imposed on Amasiri.
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He made the calls in a statement titled, “Notice of a recent attack and vandalisation of property in Akanto Ndukwe, Amasiri, Afikpo, Ebonyi State, on 16 April 2026.”
Idam claimed that suspected attackers were recently seen by residents of Amasiri fleeing to Oso-Edda, a community embroiled with Amasiri over ownership of a farm settlement known as Okporojo.
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The activist lawyer lamented that the January 30 curfew had plunged the community into ‘’deadlock, tension, and stalemate,’’ rather than restoring peace to the historically peaceful and hospitable Amasiri.
He added that the sanctions are fundamentally unjust and amount to a double jeopardy to subject a community not yet convicted of any offence to punitive measures.
Idam said: “I respectfully call for the prompt directive to the relevant agency to undertake the proposed boundary delineation, with a view to permanently nipping this issue in the bud and preventing its escalation into a major national security concern.
“These documented attacks against the Amasiri community, persisting despite Your Excellency’s current punitive measures—which, in my view and in the view of others, may rightly be regarded as poorly conceived or misguided—ought, if left unaddressed, to stand as clear evidence vindicating Amasiri as innocent victims of unprovoked, longstanding aggression, without more.”
