Family feuds
In a country with as many nations as Nigeria, feuds between neighbors can become deadly. What's a government to do?Complications: The Eggon language is spoken by about 200,000 people, but there are 25 different dialects. Most people living along the main road through the area where most Eggon live, speak Hausa. The Koro people, probably about 200,000 of them, are farmers in Nasarawa. Hausa is also used as a common language by the Koro in less isolated areas.
The first account is from Vanguard in Lagos. The second account is from Leadership in Abuja.
Tribal Clash Kills Seven, 14 Houses Razed in Nasarawa
About seven persons were, yesterday, reportedly killed and 14 houses burnt in the Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State in renewed clashes between Koro and Eggon tribesmen.
Commissioner of Police, Abayomi Akeremale, confirmed the killing… saying several houses were also destroyed by fire during the hostilities between the two tribes…
Nasarawa location
Eyewitnesses said the fight started when an Eggon boy was arrested by a vigilante group for allegedly stealing a motorcycle.
Upon investigation it was discovered that other boys, who were Koro by tribe, were involved in the act but had escaped…
The demand… to fish out the alleged culprit resulted in a fracas that led to the … killing of innocent people in their farms…
Three Killed, Many Injured in Nasarawa Communal Clash
It was sorrow, tears and shed yesterday in Agyaragu community of Obi local government area of Nasarawa State when the Eggon and Koro ethnic groups took up arms against each other leaving in its wake three persons dead and three others injured.
[T]he administrator of the Development Area, Mr. Wuduyamba S. Agidi, [said] he was attacked by the Ombatse, a militant, spiritual [group of] Eggon youths… dressed in their traditional black attire and cap…
Narrating his ordeal to Leadership, an eyewitness who craved anonymity, said tension has been simmering in the area since Sunday evening when a vigilante group from Agyaragu town, headquarters of Jenkwe Development Area, stormed the outskirts of Gwadenye, notorious for Indian hemp smokers.
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