Officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, who went to Ezillo in Ebonyi State to donate relief materials to victims of the New Year clashes narrowly escaped mob attack.
The team, headed by Dr Bamdele Onimode, the agency’s South-East Zonal coordinator, had donated relief materials to the community and proceeded to the Federal Medical Centre, Abakaliki, to visit some of the victims.
The irate villagers blocked the road leading to Enugu from the medical centre and refused the NEMA officials’ vehicles passage.
The villagers, who wielded machetes, guns and sticks, were poised for confrontation with the police.
One of the villagers said yesterday that the incident followed the arrest of one of them by the police deployed to the community.
“We will not allow any car to cross this road until the police release our arrested member. We do not need the items donated to us by NEMA again; we will cause problem here if our man is not released because we have only few survivors left in our community.”
The villagers refused to open up the road, even after their leaders had appealed to them to let go of the NEMA team.
The team had to take an alternative route leading to the main road after a volunteer helped them out.
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