SHADOWS OVER ENUGU: RURAL VOICES CRY OUT AS INSECURITY SPREADS

In the once quiet heartlands of Enugu State, an unsettling silence now echoes louder than celebration bells.

Villages like Ibagwa-Aka, Edem Ani, Ezeagu, and Eha-Amufu—once thriving with evening laughter and farming songs—are now gripped by fear, as waves of violence sweep through their soil.

At the recent Nsukka Diocesan Christian Men’s Fellowship (CMF) conference, the tone was far from spiritual reflection—it was a clarion call for help.

Community leaders took the stage not with sermons, but with stories of raids, killings, and burnt homes, painting a vivid picture of helplessness.

“These are no longer isolated cases,” one speaker declared. “Our people sleep with one eye open—the bush has become safer than their beds.”