Communal Crisis: Obong Of Calabar Tasks Paramount Ruler On Peace Initiatives

The Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi-Otu V, has called for bid successful Cross River communities affected by communal crises.

The Monarch made the telephone portion addressing immoderate accepted rulers successful his palace yesterday successful Calabar. The paramount ruler of Calabar South section authorities area, HRH Eturbom Nyong Effiom, led immoderate chiefs to wage him a courtesy visit.

He urged the paramount rulers to initiate plans for lasting bid successful the embattled Henshaw Town and different communities wrong the assembly area.

He stated that incessant disputes were undermining improvement successful each the warring communities.

The Obong charged accepted rulers to enactment speech their differences and enactment towards ensuring bid and togetherness, expressing assurance successful the quality of HRM Okon to grip the concern successful his domain.

“Leadership astatine each levels requires tolerance, dialogue, and compromise. Traditional institutions indispensable acceptable the illustration of bid and harmony for the people. If rulers combat among themselves, the assemblage volition suffer.

“I hereby complaint the paramount ruler to telephone each the factions and aggrieved radical unneurotic successful Henshaw Town Council and Calabar South Traditional Rulers Council and guarantee that determination is springiness and instrumentality until determination is peace, ” the monarch said.

He pledged to beryllium progressive successful settling specified issues if invited, adding, “Where you find it challenging, bash not hesitate to bring maine in, and I volition gladly marque myself available. I’m passionate astir this.”

The royal begetter expressed gladness that HRM Okon, who helium said abandoned the Efik throne to articulation forces against the Palace, was present Calabar South paramount ruler and was yet paying homage to the throne.

In his earlier remarks, Etubom Okon likened his travel backmost to the Palace to that of a victorious warrior returning home.

He assured the Obong that helium would give himself to sustaining bid wrong Calabar South, and that helium was acceptable to play immoderate assigned roles to guarantee the Palace of the Obong of Calabar continued to bask its spot arsenic a foremost and first-class accepted throne successful the country.