Clan forced to leave

A REPORT in The National last Thursday said that members of a clan have escaped to a nearby village because they are tired of fighting.
It’s a sad story.
The Wolumkanem clan came from Yawaremul, which is located at the boarder of Jimi and Ramu, to live with their brothers in the early 1960s.
The grandfathers who came at that time with their wives and children have long passed on from this life.
Their children who travelled with them are now aged in their 60s and 70s and some, too, have passed on.
This is the third generation. This has been their homeland. They were born here, grew up here and married and lived here.
We all grew up together as children.
It is very sad to hear them leaving their homeland and going to live in Domil, which is not their homeland.
Inter-clan fighting has ravaged the Dambe tribe for ages.
There has to be an investigation into why they have to leave their homeland and move to Domil as refugees.
I now ask the two leaders of Wolumkan, Joshua Bokun and Michael (Siwi) Kunga, to go back to the roots and find out what went wrong.
On behalf of the Dambe Arkekan clan, whom our grandfathers brokered and brought to the Wolumkan and Dalkan, we sympathise with you and feel for you.
There is much that the leaders can do to bring peace and the good order committee of Nondugl should step in and find out why there has been ongoing fighting.

True Dambe Blood