Enugu Govt Debunks Ceding Border Community To Kogi

The Enugu State government says the trending news that the National Boundary Commission (NBC), has ceded Ette, a border community in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area, to Kogi State is unfounded.

The Secretary to Enugu State Boundary Committee, Dr Solomon Ejim, stated this on Friday. According to him, NBC is yet to publish any report or decision on the protracted interstate land dispute.

The statement read, “The attention of the Enugu State government has been drawn to a fake and misleading online report claiming that the National Boundary Commission (NBC) has made a decision on the age-long interstate boundary dispute between Enugu State and Kogi State to the effect that Ette community in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State has been administratively ceded to Kogi State.

“The Enugu State government wishes to state categorically that the report is fake. The director-general of NBC has also been contacted by the government and he vehemently debunked and disowned the report as outrightly false and not emanating from the Commission.”

The state urged the people of Igbo-Eze North LGA and Enugu State to ignore the fake news, describing it as “a clear handiwork of mischief makers”.

Quoting the release, “The people are enjoined not to entertain any form of anxiety, but go about their normal businesses, as no such resolution has been reached by the commission in respect of the Enugu State–Kogi State.”

Enugu Govt Debunks Ceding Border Community To Kogi is first published on The Whistler Newspaper