The age long community boundary dispute between Ubet Okom group of villages and Mbente village in Nkari Clan of Ini local government area has gotten messier.

Community members have reported that people have lost their lives and property worth millions of naira damaged as another round of clashes took place last week.

Lending their voice to the reoccurrence of violence, Ini people under an umbrella body, Peace and Unity Advocacy Foundation has sent a Save Our Soul (SOS) message to the Akwa Ibom State Government through the office of the Deputy Governor, Senator AKON EYAKENYI.

In the message, they are asking for a lasting solution to end the ongoing perennial crisis by complete seizure of those boundary lands in dispute for government farming or building of Industries to avert further loss of innocent lives and properties.

In a release jointly signed by the Chancellor of the Foundation, Mkpisong Prince NDAEYO NYAUDO INUAEYEN JP, the Director General, Pst. MICHAEL SAMPSON, Jr. Director of Information Strategy, ENGR IDARA AKPANOWO, Director of Community Affairs, Comrade THEOPHILUS UKPABIO and the Patron, Pastor HENRY AKPABIO, the PEACE AND UNITY AMBASSADORS described the dastardly act of Murder of  Mbente Sons as “Unacceptable and Highly Condemnable”.