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Enugu Community Resorts To Invoking Deities Against Pro-Biafra Attacks, Killings

 

A community in Enugu State, South-east Nigeria, has resorted to invoking deities to stop frequent attacks and killings by pro-Biafra gunmen in the area.

 

The community, Enugu-Ezike, which is in the Igboeze-North Local Government Area of the Nigerian South-eastern state, had been witnessing frequent attacks and killings by the pro-Biafra gunmen.

 

Multiple sources said that the community invoked the deities following the alleged inability of the security agencies to stop the attacks in the area.

 

Nicholas Idoko, an indigene and elder in the community, stated earlier in March that community leaders were alarmed by the frequent attacks and killings in the region, prompting them to develop plans to apprehend the perpetrators. Mr Idoko stated that the first group of people detained by the community were confirmed to be indigenes. He stated that following the finding, the community resolved to invoke numerous deities against the assailants.

 

“We carried the deities in all parts of the community beginning from Orute Roundabout and petitioned the deities to kill anybody – man or woman who attacks or kills or causes insecurity in our land,” he said. “That was in November 2023. Since then, our place has been calm.”

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On Saturday, another community member known only as Afamefuna corroborated the development. Mr Afamefuna stated that the community chose to invoke the deities because the hoodlums who carried out the attacks hold strong beliefs in them. He stated that before the deities were invoked, the community leaders had strategically recruited the suspected attackers into the Neighbourhood Watch Group. Nonetheless, their emphasis on the Biafra agenda sparked conflict between them with the founding members of the Neighbourhood Watch Group, culminating in multiple deaths.

 

“In the heat of the killings and attacks, soldiers were deployed to solve the problem. But the soldiers’ intervention did not really work,” he said in Igbo.

 

“So, the community invoked the deities in November 2023. That day, the whole community was filled with people. Even security agencies were guiding those carrying the deities.

 

“As of now, after the invoking of the deities, to be honest, the insecurity has slowed down in the community” Mr Afamefuna added.

 

The indigene claimed that the village elders invoked more than seven deities that day.

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