The Inua Eyet Ikot Group in Ibeno Native Authorities Space of Akwa Ibom State, have been abandoned after a midnight assault final weekend through which property price hundreds of thousands of naira was destroyed by suspected hoodlums from their neighbouring Esit Eket council space.
The small oil and fuel wealthy Inua Eyet Ikot neighborhood in Ibeno hosts the ExxonMobil Qua Iboe terminal facility and still have BUA’s petrol chemical manufacturing unit underneath development of their area.
Conducting Journalists around the terribly broken colleges, clinics and folks’s properties yesterday, the emeritus village council chairman, Chief Nta Edyang, lamented that the broken buildings, farms and different services had been valued at over N100 million.
Based on him, ” A few days in the past, we had been woken as much as the invasion from our Esit Eket neigh- bors at midnight with huge assaults on our farms, clinic, colleges and folks’s properties which had been all introduced right down to rubbles.
“The invaders got here at midnight well-armed and folks fled into the bushes, from the place they overheard them utilizing sledge hammers and different harmful tools to destroy properties that we laboured to construct to basis stage.
“The only real motive for the most recent at- tack is just not unconnected with ongoing petrochemical manufacturing unit mission which is being in-built our neighborhood by BUA group.
The hoodlums declare our village is their land and even hosted a flag after the destruction, written ‘Ibeno beware, we gained’t tolerate your conspiracy with state authorities to take our land’.
He additional revealed, “We now have reported the matter to the State Police Commissioner who visited the world within the firm of different safety companies to see the extent of injury and appealed to us to stay calm whereas investigation is ongoing.”
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