Description

OIL-rich Akwa Ibom State has of late been in the eye of a raging storm occasioned by escalating cult and communal wars and even kidnappings across the state. In the unfolding scenario, each section of the state seems to be faced with its own form of simultaneously occuring social menace.
In the Annang axis, there is escalating supremacy war among rival cult groups characterised by killings, reprisals and kidnappings, a situation which some residents and even politicians have come to refer as “The return of the boys”. And the local government areas affected in the axis are Etim Ekpo, Ukanafun, Essien Udim, Ikot Ekpene and Abak.