On the 6th of April, 2018, the people of Inyima had were engulfed in shock as their neighboring community killed five persons. These killings/ communal clashes as recorded according to sequence has happened in the year 1989, 2013, 2016 and presently 2018. In order to foster peace among warring communities, the House of Assembly member representing Yakurr 11 constituency Rt. Hon. Eteng Williams Jones, who detest thehe incident and is against it being a recurrent decimal having been aware that the community called Ekpeti was made plain without a single house presented the issue before the Cross River State House of Assembly during her seating yesterday, Wednesday ,2nd May 2018. He said "The boundary between Obubra must be properly demarcated and a special committee be set in its regard to demarcate the boundary as duties of the Government includes to protect lives, properties and ensure lasting peace in communities. So, for the sake of peace, the following resolutions were made at the Cross River State house of Assembly as follows: 1. That the Cross River State House of Assembly should immediately undertake an immediate visit to the affected Inyima, ekpeti communities to assess the extent of destruction in the areas. 2. That the Cross River State Government do set up a commission of Inquiry to be headed by a Judge to look into the remote and immediate cause of Incessant communal clashes between Inyima, Ekpeti and Oderega communities and others so to forestall reoccurrences of crisis. 3. That the all elected appointees, Government officials and elites from Oderega, Inyima and Ekpeti communities, head of security agencies in the state, namely Police, DSS, SSA to the Governor on security matters, should appear before Cross River State House of Assembly to offer explanation on the incessant communal clashes between the two communities and provide punitive measures to avoid reoccurrences.
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