A renewed land dispute between Edjekota Community of Ogor Kingdom, Ughelli North and Otor-Ewu Community of Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State has led to the killing of three persons with many others injured on Monday.
Videos obtained show Edjekota community youths retrieving the corpse of a young man identified as Andy amidst women wailing and men threatening reprisal. The video also shows a complete barricade of the Edjekota/Ewu road by angry youths.
Though the report is sketchy, it was learned that both communities had long been claiming ownership of a stretch of land in the area which is currently being litigated at the Otu-Jeremi High Court.
findings show that two casualties were reported from Edjekota while one person from Ewu was killed while transiting back home through Edjekota.
A Community source said, “This issue of land ownership between the communities is a matter already at the High Court in Jeremi and we a supposed to be in court on April 10.
“As usual, our people had been going to farm on the land until this morning (Monday) when the other community people went with the police to arrest them in their farm land and those that escaped came to notify our community people.
“Some of our people that were arrested are, Izaga, Michael Itedjere and Pa Othu and his wife who were later released because of their age.
“Our people moved into the bush in search of those who were missing and in the process, they saw two of their people whom our youths apprehended and handed over to Ughelli Police Area Commander.
