Many injured as power tussle turns bloody in Ebonyi, Benue border community
Scores have been confirmed hospitalised while were others injured in a communal clash that followed a power tussle between the people of Ugboenyim, a border community between Ebonyi and Benue states.
Ugboenyim, an Izzi speaking community, is anthropologically Ebonyi State and geographically Benue State.
The people are under Ado Local Government Area of Benue State, and are part of the southern senatorial zone of the state.
DAILY POST gathered that the power tussle among members of the community has claimed several lives, with properties worth millions of naira damaged, since it commenced in 2006.
Although frantic efforts were made to resolve the crisis, the people recently returned to the trenches with many sustaining grievous injuries from different weapons, including canes, machetes and gunshots when the two warring factions clashed
