conflict is a violent conflict between non-state groups that are organized
along a shared communal identity.
The dispute in the present case is predicated upon an unresolved interstate
land dispute between two ethnic groups under the Defendant’s State wherein
the Supreme Court of Nigeria in its decision ordered that the matter be
revisited by the National Boundary Commission of the Defendant with a view
to finding an amicable settlement to the boundary dispute. This the Plaintiffs
admitted in their originating application.
The Plaintiffs in their written address contend that neither Kogi nor Enugu
state can on its own determine the location of the territory as being within
their jurisdiction, and the Defendant’s National Boundary Commission
cannot, by any shade of imagination make it as part of their function to
determine for the Community where they should be.
The Defendant argued that matters of this nature are to be resolved by its
National Boundary Commission, the only commission charged with sorting
out the issue of this nature.
PART II of the National Boundary Commission Act, Cap. 238, L.F.N.,
1990, provides that:
The Commission shall-
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