By Suru Charles
While Tarabains are still living in fear f o l l o w i n g t e r r o r i s t activities, crisis is again brewing in Ichen community of Kurmi local government council of the state.
To however avert the crisis, the people have called for the immediate deployment of more soldiers to some of the council’s communities that are prone to the crisis.
They were led by a member of the Ichen Kurmi kingdom in Bissaula community, Fhatso T.N Tukura. The call, if urgently adhered to, they believed would go a long way to halt the outbreak of skirmishes in both Bissaula and Sunkuru communities.
The ongoing plans by the state government to upgrade villages to districts and create three additional districts in Ichen and Ndola Chiefdoms in the council was observed to have been the reason behind the ongoing tension in the area. Several lives and properties, it would be recalled, were recently destroyed in the council following an outbreak of clashes that occurred early this year.
Believing that the government can track down the “instigators of instability in the area” the need for the authority to call the council chairman, Ammamzalla John to order, they believed would as well assist in curtailing the situation.
The people who said they “recognized and applaud Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku, for his tireless efforts in ensuring permanent peace throughout the state, particularly in areas where restiveness has been reported” expressed sadness that despite the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry to determine the remote and immediate causes of the dispute, the chairman is going about igniting dust.
“The genuine extent to which the government has reached out to resolve and ensure lasting peace as a result of the regrettable conflict between the Ichen and Ndaka in Bissaula, including the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry to determine the remote and immediate causes of the dispute they said, “ is welcome and appreciated.”
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Wondering why the council chairman, should go as far as sending a memo to the state government requesting the upgrading of fifteen (15) village areas to districts and the creation of three (3) additional districts in the Ichen and Ndola Chiefdoms, the need for the government to discard such request to avert upheavals, they said has become necessary.
The chairman’s action, as stated by the community “is very upsetting to all wellintentioned people who want permanent peace in Bissaula town between the Ichen and Ndaka people.” While calling on the people to embrace peace in the “interest of reconciliation” outsiders who “care little or nothing about our shared existence in terms of language, interpersonal relationships, and interethnic marriages” as opined by them “should be viewed as common foes rather than friends.”
