BY NWABUEZE OKONKWO

ONITSHA—Worried by the lingering communal crises at Osumenyi, Anambra State, which has claimed lives and property of the natives since 2006, one of the factional leaders, Mr. Celestine Obi-Oguatu, yesterday appealed to his fellow indigenes and opponents to abide by the solution proffered by Catholic and Anglican bishops in the area.

The Catholic Bishop of Nnewi Diocese, Most Rev. Hilary Paul Odili Okeke, and his Amichi Anglican Diocese counterpart, Rt. Rev. Ephraim Ikeakor, had waded into the crisis and came out with an 11-point recommendations to put the crises at bay.

The two bishops, after hearing oral submissions of individuals and groups, meeting with all factional leaders and obtaining their written submissions, declared the crises ended on the principle of No Victor, No Vanquished.

The bishops in their jointly signed seven-page peace recommendations, entitled “Our Findings, Conclusion, Resolution and Recommendations on Osumenyi Town Crisis”,  instructed that all cases concerning the crises still pending in the law courts be withdrawn without delay.