Cross River community invokes deity over traders’ refusal to relocate

By Emmanuel Una
IKOM—NKOME Ekpache  community in Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River State has invoked its ancestral god against building material traders operating in the area following the expiration of the ultimatum handed down to them to vacate the market.

Niger-Delta Voice learned that the council had allotted the traders a new location at Otedere which they (traders) claimed is waterlogged and would impede their business activities.

But the community and council authorities are insisting they must leave Nkome community.

The ultimatum given to the traders, it was learned, expired in February and to force them out of the area, the community folks invoked their ancestral god, Nkpache which directed them to tie fresh palm leaves around shops in the market.

This directive, the community leaders complied with, to stop the traders…