No fewer than 20 persons have been feared killed on Sunday, Oct. 29, in a renewed clash between the people of Yache-Ijiegu community in Yala LGA of Cross River State and the Tiv settlers from Benue State.
Both communities have suffered losses over lingering boundary clashes.
The violent boundary clashes started about two months ago when the Tiv settlers allegedly refused to continue the payments of royalties for their stay on Yache lands .
The Tiv settlers have claimed that they were being extorted forcibly by the natives, and that they have no other place to call their own, having settled there for over 100 years, intermarried and own properties.
In the renewed clash, Women and children are reportedly among the casualties as many sustained gunshot wounds and machete cuts.
Also houses belonging to people from both sides were reportedly set ablaze.
A source in Yache, Augustine Odey, said the hostilities resumed on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 26, when their son, Ayeku Godwin Ochuole, went to his farm, and Tiv assailants allegedly attacked and killed him.
The incident allegedly resulted in the abduction of, at least, nine other persons who suffered various degrees of bullet wounds.
