A group, the Edda Media Practitioners has the alarm, alleging plans by assailants from the Amasiri clan in the Afikpo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State to attack the Oso Edda community in the Edda Local Government Area of the state.
Coordinator of the group, Ikenna Emewu, stated this during a press conference in Abakaliki, on Monday,.
He disclosed that over 11 voice notes recorded in the Amasiri dialect and currently trending in different WhatsApp platforms, indicated that another attack was being hatched by warlords from the area against the Edda community.
Mr. Emewu said the people of Edda community have lost no fewer than 14 persons and over 29 houses razed since the Amasiri assailants launched their horrendous attacks.
“We, first of all want to use this opportunity to appreciate Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State for his efforts in making sure that peace returns to Oso Edda after his intervention to stave off more bloodshed on our people from the Amasiri attackers.
“We want to state that we have much more indisputable points and proofs that the nine attacks on Oso Edda at three locations between June 2023 and January 2026 are by Amasiri, a neighbouring town to Edda.
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“We are convinced that the volume of security intelligence at the disposal of the government, and security agencies proves us right.
“This press briefing became expedient as we got loads of other evidences of the collective complicity of Amasiri in masterminding and executing the series of violent attacks on Oso Edda over the years.
“The attacks have cost us 14 lives, abducting of two others whose whereabouts are unknown, burning of over 29 houses, acres of farmland, and other valuables within the three years.
“However, the timely, lawful and dutiful intervention at the last onslaught of January 29, 2026, has brought some succour to our people, and that is the reason we decided to cooperate with the Ebonyi State leadership and not do anything untoward.
“In the meantime, we also in addition to supporting the government’s moves and working with the security forces on ground, have been dutifully, monitoring the incidents in order never to be taken unawares anymore by Amasiri’s agents of bloodshed.
“Our duty of alertness got activated two days into the curfew on Amasiri when people from among them started circulating false information on social media that two soldiers were killed in Oso Edda to stain our image like theirs already tainted with the blood of the innocent. But that attempt failed because no such killing happened.
To confirm that it was a lie manufactured by the propaganda mill of the assailants, on February 4, the Nigerian Army through the Commander of the Abakaliki Cantonment, Lt. Col. Emmanuel Chielo addressed the press to debunk the claim,”he said.
