BY JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU
Calabar – Indigenes of Bakassi in Cross River State whose houses were destroyed penultimate week by some unknown youths have called on the federal and state governments help in rebuilding their houses.

The people now live in  the forest.

No fewer than 200 indigenes of Edik Idim community were displaced in an attack said to have been carried out by the youths on May 3, while about 56 houses were reduced to rubble.

In an interview with Vanguard, Chairman, Edik Idim Village Council, Chief Effiong Umoh, called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency and its SEMA counterpart to come to their aid so that they could live comfortably.

Chairman of Bakassi Local Government Area, Dr. Ekpo Bassey said that the council has drafted security agencies to the community to ensure that no more devastation was done.