BLACK SUNDAY IN INYIMA: 5 Dead, 300 Houses Razed, 5,000 Displaced

[Shola Sholaz]

Cross River State annually  experiences. natural disaster portfolios such as flood, wind storm, acid rain and hail stones which cause devastation.
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But what wreaks  more  havoc now  are conflicts among communities in the state.
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One can, on  the fingers of one hand, count the number of communities in the state that have not engaged in one form of intra or inter communal conflict at one time of the other with. consequent loss of lives  and  destruction of property.
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These  conflicts are sparked  by trivial misunderstanding or squabble for land for agricultural activity  particularly  during the planting season, January to June.
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Though the state is  blessed with, large expanse of fertile land, this is hardly considered  enough as communities  seek to acquire more by encroaching on that of  neighbours and this often  leads to confrontation and then   "war".